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The Next Adventure(s)

We've made it to 2025, and as always, a new year is full of possibilities for both good and bad. 2024 ended with some really hard...

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Feb 21, 20253 min read

A Year Later

Here I am... entering my mid to late thirties and a year into my retirement! My order loving brain likes the five years (30/35/40), and I...

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May 28, 20244 min read

Go Home & Love Your Family

The title of this blog entry paraphrases Mother Theresa's 1984 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, which is often attributed to her as: "if...

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Dec 4, 20237 min read

It's the end of an era!

Seems a bit melodramatic, but ya know, Rachel Green speaks the truth. In December of 2022 I told my boss, the chair of the English...

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May 16, 20239 min read

I love fall most of all!

Look at this amazing view! Our lovely Madison is really showing off the fall colors as we move into the autumn season. It has been a good...

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Oct 24, 20224 min read

Cyrus' Birth Story

On June 4th, 2022, our sweet Cyrus Stone turned nine months old! That date marker of him being out in the world for as long as he was...

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Jun 7, 20229 min read

That's A Wrap!

Here we are, at the end of the spring 2022 semester and honestly, at the end of a long two years. As we rounded the corner past midterms...

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May 4, 20222 min read

CCCC 2022

The third year of digital C's conferences has now come and gone! The 2020 conference was scheduled to be held in Milwaukee, WI, the 2021...

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Mar 17, 20222 min read

Teacher's Talking to Teachers

As part of my course release for departmental work this fall, I helped develop our department's professional development workshops called...

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Feb 22, 20221 min read

Welcome, 2022. Please be kind.

Less than a month after my last post, we became a family of four! We welcomed Cyrus Stone Bruce just after midnight on Saturday,...

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Jan 26, 20224 min read

Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast

I've kept a blog now for just over seven years on a Blogger site, and I am excited about this first blog on my new site! The title of...

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Aug 13, 20219 min read

Welcome, I am so glad you are here!

Here's a little about me:

"Kayla lives in the Madison area with her lovable crew: a husband, two energetic boys, and their senior pup. A lifelong lover of stories and language, Kayla has pursued her passion all the way to earning three degrees in English, culminating with a Ph.D. She loves to read, and now write, books of all kind!"

My current blogs (starting in 2021) can be found on this site. Past blogs and updates that cover my life since 2014 as a graduate student and then English professor can be found on my Blogger site,

My first book, Chicago Dreams, is for sale in person at Prairie Pages in Sun Prairie, WI and online on Amazon.

Thanks for visiting!

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kayla.b.tutoring@gmail.com

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