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The school suit allows me to be an extrovert. Basically, I'm the opposite of what I am on stage.
I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.
I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.
Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.
Grub Street Writers is the reason I've stayed in Boston. I started teaching for Grub back in 1997, when founder Eve Bridburg, a Boston University M.A. alumna, as I am, kindly gave me my first job out of grad school.
I am able to say that I was very much liked at the school. I even had quite some ascendancy over my comrades, and as soon as I appeared in the school yard, I was surrounded by young friends, most of them bigger than I, but who were quite willing to give the appearance of disciples; they would have defended me furiously if necessary.