Opening Social

Our first activity is going to be an opening social next Thursday, October 8th at 7PM. We'll start with a meet and greet at 7PM followed by getting to know you games and more information on our upcoming activities. We'll also setup 1L wives with "law-mas" to help with the first year. Feel free to invite any other law wives you know even if their husbands are going to a different school.

And of course there will be food. If your last last name starts with an A-M please bring an appetizer and N-Z please bring a dessert.

Please RSVP by email so that we know how many people to plan for. If you need a ride let us know, and we'll arrange rides.

GET FREE BOOKS FOR YOUR HUSBANDS!!!! PLEASE :)

Hey Ladies-

I am not techinically a member of JRCLSSA anymore, but I was hoping that maybe some of you (or maybe your husbands) would take some of MY husbands old law school books that we don't need or want. I just want them out of my house, so no charge, just please come get them! I will keep them until January 15th and then I will get rid of them, so act quickly, please. You can call me at 801-885-2257 or email me at catherinemgilbert@gmail.com

Thanks! Catherine Gilbert

Here they are:


Understanding Law School -- Lexis Nexis
Getting to Maybe - by Paul and tishal
Con Law - sullivan/gunther 14th ed.
Con Law- principles & policy, cases & materials- lexis nexis 6th ed.
Probs & materials in Secured Transactions-Whaley 7th ed.
Moynihan's Intro to the Law of Real Property- Kurtz 4th ed.
White Collar Crime: Satues, Rules & sentencing guidelines- Lexis/Strader/Jordan
White Collar Crime, Cases, Materials and Problems- Lexis/Strader./Jordan
Civ Pro- 4th ed. Examples & Explanations - Joseph Glankon
Mass Communication Law ( In a Nutshell) 2007
White Collar Crime (In a Nutshell)
CaseNote Legal Briefs- Business Organiztions- keyed to O'Kelley's & Thompsons Corporations
West Group-High Court Case Summaries-Property
2007 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility
Corporations & Other Business Associations, Selected Statues, Rules & Forms- 2006
Law of Torts- 3rd edition, Glannon, examples & explanations
2006 Documents Supplement to International Business Transactions 9th ed.
Gilbert Law Summaries- Property
Selected Commercial Statues 2006, ed.
2005 Civil Procedure supplement
2007-2008 Ed. Federal Income Tax- CCH, Code & Regualtions
Casenote Legal Briefs- International Buisness Transactions, Keyed to Folsom/Gordon 8th ed.
Casenote Anti-trust Pitofsky, Goldschmid & Woods ( trade regulation)
2007 Secured Transactions- Revised Article 9

JRCLSSA Changes...

Dear Spouses,
Our President Rachel Watson (the beautiful woman on your left) wanted to wish a warm welcome to all the 1L spouses, and everyone else, welcome back to the school year. Much has changed since the last blog in April. I'm brand a brand new 1L spouse, but here on the blog instead of talking about sticker shock or traffic, or good books (unless you want juvenile fiction, I'm a teacher...) I'll be talking about the great activities and Survival Nights that help us law spouses, well, survive. Or better they help us, "Come what may and LOVE IT!"

Our Survival Night in October was a panel with 4 spouses from all walks of life, from working and going to school while your spouse is also working and going to school all the way to a stay-at-home mom with two children, we all took away good advice from the troopers who have earned the title of 3L (or even 4L) spouse. :)

Some gems of wisdom were,
- Find a hobby, something good to occupy your time.
- Your law student will get grumpy during finals, let him be grumpy.
- Remind your law student that there is more to life than law school.
- The first year really is the worst, things will get better.

Many thanks to Lindi, Andrea, Jennifer, and Christy!

Be sure to come to our next activity, "Surviving Life as a Law School Spouse; Cheap and Chic." I've heard what's planned and you don't want to miss it!

You Only Have To Ask Yourself One Thing

This month for our book list, I’ve decided to return to some old favorites. I’ve decided to talk about books that have characters who make some kind of moral decision. This could be a little difficult since the moral decision is sort of the apex of each novel and I hate giving away an ending, but I really love these books, so I’m going to talk about them anyway. The books are: Moby Dick by Herman Melville, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, and Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.
Moby Dick was written in 1851. This is the story of the captain of a whaling ship who is obsessed with revenge. Moby Dick is a white whale who bit off the leg of the captain who has vowed to kill the whale. The book follows the ship through this crazy obsessed journey to find the whale. As the book goes on, one of the men on board the ship realize that this is an unhealthy obsession that could end up being the death of everyone on board. The moral decision is made by the first mate on board the ship, Starbuck (yes, that’s where the coffee place got it’s name), who has to make a decision that could either affect the life of one person on board the ship or the lives of everyone else on board. It’s a small scene in the book, but an important one.
A Tale of Two Cities was written in 1859. This is the story of the French Revolution and how it affected a small group of people, revolving around a young woman and her father. The young woman has a small group of admirers, one of whom she marries, though it is another admirer who has to make the moral decision. This character, Sydney Carton, is able to keep the young woman’s future husband from being hanged for treason at the beginning of the book and is subsequently a welcome visitor to the house after the marriage. He is a cynical amoral man who cares for nothing but the young woman, and his love for her causes him to make a decision that shows him to be of much more worth than he has shown throughout the rest of the novel. I can’t explain further about his decision without giving away the ending, but it does cause him to say “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done” which is one of the most famous quotes in literature. Sydney Carton is one of my favorite characters in literature and I’ve read the book over and over enjoying him and this great book.
Les Miserableswas written in 1862. It is the story of a man, Jean Valjean, who steals a loaf of bread to feed the family of his sister who are starving and ends up getting caught and going to jail for 19 years. When he gets out, he has become hardened and mean and immediately steals silver from a kindly old bishop who tells the police that he gave the Valjean the silver after he is caught. Valjean then has to decide if he is going to continue leading the life of a soulless convict or if he is going to change and become a better, kinder man. He decides the latter, though that decision is tried throughout the rest of the book. I have to admire a character who is so strong a moral character that he stands by his decisions though is costs him family, position, freedom, wealth and everything else that he holds dear.

This Really Happened

For the book list this month, I’m going to go a little out of my comfort zone and talk about nonfiction. I haven’t done a lot of reading in this area, but I know that many people enjoy reading in this genre. I was almost at a loss as to what to do when I remembered a book that some of we law school wives read the first year our husbands were in law school. This put me in mind of a few others that I had read and I believe that I have a few books that will work. They are Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts, Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie, and Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof and Stephen Jay Gould.
Founding Mothers is a collection of letters from the wives of the men who had a hand in forming our country. It’s a very interesting perspective of the time of the revolution as it’s written by women who saw things first hand and it shows what sort of influence women had over the forming of our country through their husbands. These were remarkable women who lived during a most interesting period of history.
Nicholas and Alexandra is a biography written about Romanovs, the last royal family of Russia. It a comprehensive look at Nicholas’ childhood including a background look at his father and expectations of his own rule, his marriage and family life and finally the end of his rule and his life during the Russian Revolution. It’s actually a pretty interesting look at how social responsibilities, perceptions of the public and the illness of a child seemed to be a large part of the downfall of the family. Rasputin, an infamous real life villain is, of course, looked at in the book. I have to admit that I first picked up this book because I loved the cartoon Anastasia. What actually happened to the family was not romantic as the movie would have you believe, but it was still quite interesting.
Eight Men Out was written about the 1919 Black Socks Scandal. That was the year that eight men from the Chicago White Socks threw the World Series. The book explains what happened including the trials of the ball players, and also talks about their possible motivation. It goes into the details of the money the players made and what they were offered to throw the games and who orchestrated the deal and what happened to the ball players after the trial. After reading this book, I found myself sympathizing with the ball players, feeling that they had been badly treated and that if people beside the ball players had been less greedy, there would have been no need for them to throw it. Not that I condone cheating, but there is a strong argument for their side.

Bar Application Woes

I’m sure that most of you have heard by now that the application to take the Bar Exam is a beast. My husband is a third year law student who is getting everything ready to graduate and take the Bar, and not too long ago we discovered some interesting things about the Bar application that may be helpful to other law students who are not going to school in Utah. In order to take the Bar Exam in Utah, a background check needs to be done through the FBI for the application. This can take up to 20 weeks, depending on how busy the FBI is. The application is due the first of March if the student wants to take the Bar in July, so students should look at the application well in advance if they want to get everything taken care of in time. My own husband looked at the application a month and a half early and panicked when he found out about the background check. Luckily he contacted the people at the FBI and found that they were processing them much quicker than 20 weeks at that time. It still took him three weeks to get it back and that was after he did everything he could to get it expedited. So, yes, my husband is okay to take the Bar now, but I wanted to send out a notice to students who will be sending in applications in the future. Please, spouses, have your law students look at the Bar application well in advance. Not all states demand a background check, some just require a set of finger prints so that they can run the background check themselves, and some don’t require anything like that, but some do, so be aware.

Something's Afoot

I’ve been debating with myself over whether or not I should do murder mysteries for the book list for a little while now. I don’t know if any of you out there mind a little violence in your books or mind a discussion of books that are not quite up to “classic” standards. However, I’m of the opinion that a little mind candy never hurt anyone and there are some reasons why it wouldn’t be bad to be better acquainted with the author Agatha Christie. Dame Agatha Christie wrote over 80 detective books and plays in her time and has been dubbed The Queen of Crime. More copies of her books have been sold than any other author with the exception of Shakespeare and the Bible. Her Belgian detective Poirot is the only fictional character to have been given an obituary in the New York Times. Many of her books have been made into movies. And, for me, her books are quite entertaining with well constructed storylines and some have very shocking endings that probably should have been obvious. The three most entertaining and shocking books from Ms. Christie, for me, were The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, and And Then There Were None.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was written in 1926. This is a book that features her famous detective Hercule Poirot, a little Belgian who started out small and gained much notoriety later in his career and who had a somewhat bumbling sidekick, much like Sherlock Holmes. This case follows Poirot as he looks into the case of the death of a local wealthy gentleman. There are several suspects and missing men and misleading clues, all of which are common in murder mysteries. However, this was the most surprising murder mystery that I’ve ever read, and if I tell you why, it won’t be shocking any longer. Sorry.
The Murder on the Orient Express was written in 1934. This is another book that features Hercule Poirot. This particular case involves Poirot on the Orient Express, a train traveling through Europe. The train stops suddenly in the middle of the night in the mountains where no one could possibly have crept on without being noticed. One man is murdered and Poirot must discover who did it and why.
And Then There Were None was written in 1939. This book features ten people who receive letters inviting them to an island off the coast of England for a holiday. When they arrive, they hear a record read off their names and a dire sin that each has committed, saying that they have been brought to the island to pay for their sin. They notice a poem that reads:
Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were Nine.
Nine little Indian boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were Eight.
Eight little Indian boys traveling in Devon; One said he'd stay there and then there were Seven.
Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in halves and then there were Six.
And so on until there are no Indian boys left. Due to some unavoidable circumstances, the visitors are unable to leave the island, though they would like to when they start to die in correlation with the poem. I know, the poem isn’t very PC, but it was written long before political correctness was an issue. And, though it’s not as shocking as the Murder of Roger Ackroyd, it’s one of my favorites.
One last note. As I write up these blog posts, I do my best to not give away any secrets or plot endings. I hate it when people give away an ending for me, so I do my best not to give away an ending for anyone else and I hope that makes the book a more desirable read. If anyone would like to know more about a book or would like to have a nice long discussion about any of the books from the book list, I’m always here.

Not for the Faint of Heart

This month for our book list, I want to go in a slightly different direction. I want to talk about poetry. I know that for some, poetry is boring and hard to read and unnecessary for a happy and fulfilled life, but there are some people out there who really enjoy a good poem and this is for you. I want to focus on English writers because in college I studied mostly English writers and it makes writing this post easier if I write about what I know. I’ve chosen three poets and will list some of their best works (or at least some of my favorites). The three poets I’ve chosen are John Donne, William Blake and Percy Shelly.
Sir John Donne lived from 1572 to 1631. During his early life he was a bit of a wild child, and during his later life he became a priest, and both of these periods of his life are reflected in his poetry. Early in his life, he wrote poems like “The Flea”, which is a very funny poem in which a flee biting both Donne and his love is equated to marriage. Later in his life, his poetry took a distinctively religious turn as he wrote many sermons and holy sonnets. One reason that I enjoy Donne so much is because of the great love he had for his wife and the many poems that reflect that love. “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” is a beautiful poem about how he and his wife are so connected in love that there’s no need to be sad, or to make a fuss when they must be separated for a little while because their souls are connected still. Even in his later religious poetry, he writes about his love for his wife. He wrote “Holy Sonnet 17” after his wife passed away and the poem is a beautiful piece of writing about how God is the only thing that can fill the void left by his wife. The romantic in me loves this kind of poetry and John Donne is one of my favorite poets.
William Blake lived from 1757 to 1827. His most well known work is the collection of poems titled Songs of Innocence and Experience. Just as it sounds, the poems in the Innocence section are poems about innocence (shocking, right?), joy, religion, and the natural world. They’re generally upbeat and light. The poems from Experience are darker, usually concentrating on more serious subjects. Many of the poems from one section are shown from an opposite perspective in the other, such as “The Lamb” from the poems in Innocence and “The Tyger” from Experience. I enjoyed all the poems from this small collection. As a side note, Blake did all the illustrations for his poems himself. Some of them are quite intricate, with a lot of detail and I won’t go too far into an explanation, but Blake etched them out onto metal plates and filled with ink sort of like a stamp himself. He was an excellent artist.
Percy Shelly lived from 1792 to 1822. He wrote during the time of the Romantics (a period of English poetry, not romantic as in love). He was very dedicated to the idea of Romanticism, he even wrote a poem about a fellow writer, William Wordsworth, who he thought had betrayed the Romantic style of writing; was a sell out so to speak. The poem is called “To Wordsworth”, and is actually a poignant criticism of Wordsworth because he echoes a poem that Wordsworth once wrote (if anyone is interested in looking at this poem, it’s called “London 1802” and was written about John Milton, another poet). Most of Shelley’s poetry is quite lyrical and a few a quite political. Some other poems of Shelley’s that I enjoy are “Ozymandias”, “Ode to the West Wind” and “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”.

Jump Back In, The Water's Fine

Welcome back from the Christmas break. Going off to visit family or spending time with your spouse who has suddenly reappeared with nothing to do after a few weeks of grueling tests is always nice, but now it’s time to reenter our every day law school lives. I don’t know how the rest of you feel, but I find getting back into the routine of work and/or school is a bit gloomy. A whole new semester is stretched out before me without the hope of another break for quite a while. I find that I have to have some sort of motivation to once again get up early so that I can get to work on time instead of enjoying the luxury of sleeping in as I have been for the short break. At the moment that motivation is “Woo whoo! One Semester left!” (I even have the countdown clock set up on my personal blog!) Of course there are other motivations out there, like seeing friends who have been away for a few weeks, working so that my husband and I aren’t homeless, that sort of thing. Once that first day back is over, everything is fine again and I’m happy to be back, but that first morning is a killer. Does anyone else feel the same way? And what do you do to combat the first-morning-back blues?

Play It Again Sam

It’s that time again, time to dust off your book shelves for something new to read. In keeping with our previous book lists, I have three new items, but this month I thought I’d go with plays. So much great literature is written in play form, in fact some of the first literature around was a play. There are so many great plays that I had a hard time narrowing them down to three for the purposes of this blog, but I finally decided on three that had a little variety but were all very entertaining. They are Othello, Our Town, and Pygmalion.
Othello was written by William Shakespeare around 1603. I know that most everyone had to read this play in high school, but I simply could not have a section about plays for our book group and not include a play from greatest playwright in history. I decided to go with Othello because it has one my favorite villains in it, and I love a good villain. Iago is able to lie and insinuate Othello into a frenzy causing him to act rashly and lose everything that he has. And yet, though he is plotting the downfall of Othello and other characters, he is called Honest Iago throughout the play. The play itself is very interesting and well written as all Shakespeare plays are.
Pygmalion was written by George Bernard Shaw in 1913. It’s the story of man who makes a bet that he can pass a flower girl off as an aristocrat by changing the way she speaks. I know what your thinking, movie buffs, and yes, this is the original play that My Fair Lady was adapted from. There are a few differences of course, but the adaptation was well done. Of course, George Bernard Shaw got his inspiration from the Ovid story of Pygmalion, the man who disliked women until he sculpted the perfect woman and fell in love with the sculpture. He prayed to the goddess Aphrodite who turned the sculpture into a woman whom he then married.
Our Town was written by Thornton Wilder in 1937. It’s the story of life in a small town in the thirties, especially following a young couple who marry in the second act. The third act ties everything together (as usually happens in plays) as one character sums up by saying “My, wasn't life awful--and wonderful,". It’s an absolutely beautiful play that made me try to look at things a little more closely and be thankful for what I have and for every minute that I have with the people I love.

It's Finals Time

Finals have rolled around again which means it’s that time of year when we spouses see our law students less than usual. For the spouses of the first years, you are probably experiencing what life would be like if you were single again. One of the great things about law school (or so my husband tells me) is that your entire grade is determined by one test, not a lot of busy work and homework assignments. However, one of the worst things about law school is that your entire grade is determined by one test. Should you be having a bad day, or misread a question or two, your grade could drop without hope of bringing it back up. This is one reason why our spouses are gone most of the time during finals week and usually a few weeks before. They need to study, study, study. The first year students have no idea what to expect from the tests, so they have an especially stressful few weeks. What I wanted to write about here are ways to help our spouses relieve some of that stress, so if anyone has any suggestions, please post a comment. To help my own husband relieve some of his stress, the best thing I can do is to listen to him as he talks about what he needs to do to prepare for his tests. He’ll tell me about when he’s going to study with a group, what time his tests are, how far he’s gotten through outlining his notes and other things of that nature. I think that it helps him organize his thoughts better if he can speak them out loud, so I talk with him about what he’s going to do and when he’s going to do it. Also, we live in a studio apartment so I have to keep a little more quite than usual if he decides to study at home. Those are just a couple of things that I do to help my husband make it through finals time. Are there any suggestions from the other veteran spouses out there?

Washington Monument Tour

Hey Everyone,

We had a great time touring the Washington Monument last week and wanted to share some pictures with the group. The views from the top were really amazing and it was a nice, short trip for the kids. As a bonus, when we were walking back to our cars, the president's helicopter flew right over our heads and landed on the grass behind the white house. There were hundreds of people lined up on the balconies of the house apparently because Bush was arriving to "pardon" a turkey. Hope you can all join us in December!

Sarah

Not Just for Kids

This month for our book list, I thought that juvenile books would be fun. There are so many good books out there for young people that can also be inspirational for those of us who are a little bit older and that I don’t think should be discounted. Since there are so many, I thought the best way to narrow them down to three for the purpose of this blog was to pick them off the Newberry Award list. Newberry Award winners are always insightful and poignant usually with a good moral and plenty of imagination. The three books that I’ve chosen from this list are Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, Maniac Magee, and Holes.
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry was written by Mildred D. Taylor in 1976. This is the story of a black land owning family and their struggles during the 1930’s. It’s told from the perspective of a young girl of this family. She is able to describe the events of racism and anger from a unique point of view because as a child, she doesn’t understand race and hate, only fair and unfair and can give an uncomplicated unclouded view of the events that take place in the novel, as no adult could, much like Scout in to Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a heartbreaking look at the pre-civil rights America, but an excellent read.
Maniac Magee was written by Jerry Spinelli in 1990. This is the story of a young boy, Jeffery, who runs away from home because he can’t understand the strained and hateful relationship between his aunt and uncle who were raising him, and follows him as he enters a town and meets the people there and effects everyone. Once again, this book deals with racism, as the town is divided into two sections of race and shows how Jeffery deals with this divide, not realizing what racism is and that people can dislike one another simply based on skin color. This book also delves into the importance of family as Jeffery spends time with several different families as he tries to find a place where he belongs.
Holes was written in 1998 by Louis Sachar. This is the story of a boy who is sent to a detention camp for stealing shoes, which he didn’t, and follows his adventures at the camp as he meets other delinquents and finds buried treasure. It also discusses a family curse, an outlaw from the wild west times, and an athlete with a foot odor problem. This is an imaginative tale interweaving the stories of several characters over several generations, culminating in a boys camp discovery. Sacher is able to tell quite a story that is interesting and funny and one in which the characters learn a little something about integrity and loyalty and friendship.

Angel Tree

Christmas Service Project

For all who are interested in contributing to an angel tree this Christmas please email me (sarahmhopkins@verizon.net) and let me know.

I will pick up as many tags as we need from the Salvation Army and then distribute them to you. We need to deliver the gifts to the Salvation Army by Saturday, December 8.

We will have a wrapping party on Thursday, December 6 (more info to follow). Thanks for all your help!

Sarah Hopkins

How Do You Say "I Love You"?

When Chris and I got married, we received some books as wedding presents, as I'm sure most of you young couples did. One of the books we received was a book called Then Comes Marriage by Mark D. Ogletree and Douglas E Brinley. Being new to the marriage scene, and to the couples scene as well, I read through looking for some good advice on how to be the best little wife ever. While I may not have won that title by any stretch of the imagination, I did read an interesting chapter about the language of love. The book asserts that there are five different love languages and if you can discover which one best matches your spouse, you can use that method often to let your spouse know that you love and appreciate them. These five love languages are:

Words of Affirmation
Quality Time
Gifts
Acts of Service
Physical Touch

I had never thought of this before, but it makes perfect sense to me. I can point out a different member of my family who are the physical representations of each of these love languages. I wish I could say that this was helpful in my dealings with Chris, but he's so very mellow and seems to like most of these equally that I can't tell which he prefers, and I flat out asked him which he likes and he gave me a shrug and said "I don't know". Of course that could be his subtle way of saying "dear, I'm a dude, and we don't talk about our feelings", so I didn't press him. I would be interested to hear if anyone agrees with this notion and if they know which one they prefer. I myself actually prefer three all at once, but I know that Chris reads this every so often so I'm not going put it up there and make him figure it out all by himself. That's my subtle way of saying "so there ha ha ha".

Usborne Book Party

I’ve just become an
USBORNE CONSULTANT
And you’re invited to my
KICK-OFF PARTY!!

Please come and see the awesome books that I’ll be selling.

Wednesday, November 7 at 7:00
At my place:
6176 Edsall Road Apt 84
Alexandria, VA 22304

I know it’s short notice but I wanted you to be able to get books
in time for Christmas.

I’m so excited to show you the great products that Usborne has to offer. The party will help me practice showing off the products, and will help me build my display, as well as give you all a chance to see them and decide if you’d ever like to have your own party. It’ll be a lot of fun to see you, look at fun books and eat some yummy treats.

Let me know if you’ll be able to make it, 703-888-6222.
Thanks so much!!
Brooke

P.S. It’s always okay to bring a friend!

Cox Farm Outing Tomorrow

Hey Ladies,
Just a reminder that we're going to visit Cox Farms tomorrow (Mon Oct 22). Meet at 10am at the picnic benches by the stage. It costs $8/person 2 years and up. Bring a lunch and a camera. It sounds like an amazing place complete with 20 minute haunted hayride, slides, petting farm, children's area, live music at lunch, free apples and cider, and a pumpkin to take home. The website is www.coxfarms.com. Hope to see you tomorrow!
Sarah

A Few Fall Festivities

I am not claiming to be an expert on VA/DC events...at all, but I did find a few events that I never knew about and thought would be fun fall events! I thought I would share!

1. Claude Moore Farm 18th Century Market Fair

We have driven by signs for Claude Moore Farm several times on the GW Pkwy. We decided to stop off and check it out. The lady told us to come back for a great event on Saturday. She gave us free passes and told us we had to return. Looks pretty cool...Jamie is excited for the homemade root beer.

2. Mt Vernon Family Fall Harvest

Some of you may have already been to this last year...we haven't, but we think we might try to hit this one too. Looks like a party!

Happy Fall to all!

I am writing you about something very close to my heart. I am writing you about Autism. Most of you know that I work at a school for kids with learning disabilities. In my time there I have learned a lot about Autism and a lot about how it effects children and their families. I am now very interested in research, studies and any type of speculation about Autism.
This Saturday there will be a Walk Now for Autism....
October 20, 2007 - The National Mall
At Seventh Street, NW - between Madison and Jefferson Drives
- Washington, DC



9:30am: Opening Ceremonies
10:00am: Walk begins
11:30am: Closing Ceremonies
1:00pm: Resource Fair closes


I am planning on walking with TJ and my dog. We have formed a team named; Team England, I would love and appreciate it if you ALL JOINED with us in the Walk For Autism, as apart of our team!! Email me back if you are able to come and we will come up with a good meeting place down town! Kids are welcome, so feel free to bring strollers or whatever you need! (For my family in Utah I know you won't be able to make it to the walk, so please make a donation if you are in the position to do so.. You have no idea how grateful I am to have such a supportive family!!)

If you are feeling generous you can make a donation to the Cure Autism Now website. Even $5 would help! All the research that can be done for autism is beneficial. Cure Autism Now and Autism Speaks are amazing foundations that have done so much work for Autism. Any donation is Tax deductible and I can email you the Tax ID number for that. You can donate at:

https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=214840&supId=193012715

Thank you for all your love and support!

Kingsbury Book Fair

I just wanted to let you all know that this week, October 15th-19th is the Kingsbury Book Fair. Now, last year it wasn't as big as I would have liked but, this year it is a very nice size considering we are a small private school! Half of what Scholastic makes goes to the Kingsbury Scholarship Fund! So even one purchase will help!! Anyways, if any of you are in the neighborhood and would like to stop by, we'd love to have you!! I'd love to show you around the school and if it is a good time you could even meet the boys I teach. (A real treat!!)
Kingsbury is located at:
5000 14th Street NW
Washington, DC
20011

If you have questions you can email me!! ericaengland@gmail.com