SurvivingSara

Tag: education

  • Flowers for Sara

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    Many blog readers are probably too young to remember “Flowers for Algernon.” It’s a book frequently assigned to English class back in the day. Later, there was a movie. I haven’t read it in years and years but, paraphrasing, a man with a low IQ receives a “miracle” drug that has shown amazing results with…

  • An Alphabet Whirlwind

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    All the letters used to be under control in my head. Growing up, if I saw words, I could usually spell them correctly just like that. When I needed to work it out, looking up to the right would help me put it in context and come up with letters falling into place effortlessly. Truth…