Kelly Barnhill

Kelly Barnhill is a stay-at-home mom and writer who has also been a bartender, a park ranger, and a wilderness firefighter.

— From February 2007

Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

I Star In My Own Made-For-TV Movie

I first knew Marcus by his constant muttering. In my tracked eighth-grade classes, he was in the lowest track. He had failed every class in every quarter the previous year, for the simple reason that he had not completed a single assignment. Not one. He never did the in-class work I gave him.

February 2007

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