Tag: teachers

When the Horse Comes in from Recess

Posted on June 4, 2024 by

2 Comments

Charlotte’s Web. But only because my fourth-grade teacher, Mrs. Pendleton, read a few pages every day. It was luxurious, sitting at my wooden desk, still sweaty from recess where I’d been running around with my friend pretending to be horses (this went on for… Continue Reading “When the Horse Comes in from Recess”

Category: Aging in AbundanceTags: , ,

The Incredible Beauty of Typing Class

Posted on March 8, 2015 by

10 Comments

High school was a vast sea of uncomfortableness. Every day a variation on that theme. Always a part of me off, the limits of my wardrobe a burden I felt every ten days as I waited to wear the teal skirt and sweater set… Continue Reading “The Incredible Beauty of Typing Class”

Category: WritingTags: , ,

Follow Red's Wrap via email

Join 5,197 other subscribers
What’s new on Red’s Wrap

Join Jan on Threads and Facebook

Wisconsin People & Ideas 2022 3rd Place Fiction Winner
Snow Door | wisconsinacademy.org
Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect

Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect

Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect

 

Jan Wilberg

Jan Wilberg

What happens here on Red's Wrap is all over the map. There is no single theme, no overarching gripe, no malady of my own or others that dominates. I write about what seems important or interesting at the moment and what aims me toward hope. I write stories, essays, poems - whatever fits the day and the mood. Nothing stays the same, here or anywhere. That's a good thing. Happiness. It's relative.

View Full Profile →

"The Power of Saying You're Sorry," Lives, Newsweek, 9-5-08
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11

Copyright

(c) Janice Wilberg and Red’s Wrap (2010-2026). Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author/owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Janice (Jan) Wilberg and Red’s Wrap with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.