Candace Mitchell:  

Life I live in Newburyport, MA where my son is now a senior leading a fast-paced life filled with good friends, academics, and sports. He's my constant reminder of how quickly life passes us by as it seems only moments ago that I too led the life he now leads. I teach in a grad program in applied linguistics at UMass Boston, and have recently published Writing and Power, Paradigm Pubs. I just finished a novel: Sugar Shack, but have yet to seek an agent. Before going on for a PhD. I taught ESL in an inner city school and did community work - voter reg, community newspaper, and so forth. Funding came from of all people, Noam Chomsky, when at that point I had no idea that linguistics would be my chosen field - I had opted for politics. I long for the time to garden, to see old friends, and to sit upon the beach with a new book to read, but find the pace of my life prevents these pleasures from occurring to the degree that I would wish. My son needs me home and my work demands much time, so it is with nostalgia that I think of the high school years when all seemed so care- free and intensely dramatic and seemingly without end. But those days did end, and more and more I find myself wishing that I could once more see and talk with the great friends I made throughout those years. Often I wish that I had grown up in simpler times when families stayed in one community and lived their lives among those they had known for generations. This was far from the reality for me as I attended three high schools, and upon graduation from the last moved yet again. Despite the upheaval, I cling to the wonderful times I shared with so many at the schools I attended and would love to hear from those of you who remember me, for I remember all of you. What more to say: I took a break from public school teaching and moved to Manhattan for a while in my twenties, then returned to Massachusetts to get a Masters. Taught for a short time, and then went straight on to ...Expand for more