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Articles by
Kerry Elson
Kerry Elson is a teacher and writer in New York City.
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February 13, 2025I Vow, from This Day Forward, to Watch Every Episode of Freaks and Geeks with You
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September 13, 2024A First-Year Teacher Learns to Use Adhesives from Her Mentor
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April 30, 2024Getting Dinner with Friends Who Don’t Know Each Other: Into the Friendship Multiverse
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April 11, 2024A Support Group for People Whose Friends Have Moved to Los Angeles
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March 7, 2024She Lives in New York and Los Angeles
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January 22, 2024Long-Time Single Procures Boyfriend: Field Notes
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August 17, 2023You Must Teach This New Curriculum with Fidelity
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September 7, 2022What Kind of Music Do You Like?
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May 2, 2022Our Bus Stop: A Play by Thornton Wilder
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August 25, 2021Hang Out with Me, a Teacher, Before Summer Is Gone
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May 27, 2021Enjoy Our Bedtime Tea, Which We Really Hope Is Enough
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September 4, 2020A Meditation for Kindergarten Teachers Who Are Teaching In-Person During the Pandemic
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June 3, 2025New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Violated the Constitution”
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June 6, 2025I, Saruman, Have Ended My Alliance with the Dark Lord Sauron
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February 10, 2015What a Straight Man’s Favorite Musical Says About Him
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June 9, 2025It’s Not Going Great, but Imagine How Much Worse Things Would Be with a Woman President