Mrs. Matheny and Blythe in Ephesus, Turkey in April, 2016. (One of us remained awake. #jetlag)

Mrs. Matheny and her BFF, Mrs. Poort, in London in 2012.

Mrs. Matheny working in Giza, Egypt in 1999.

I grew up in humid St. Louis, Missouri and graduated after a largely enjoyable run at Ladue Horton Watkins High School. In high school, I loved going to English classes and participated in cheer (4 years) and swimming (3 years- I broke my arm rollerblading on spring break in Florida and was kept from the sure glory of what would have been my last season).  

I later majored in English literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder and graduated with my bachelor's degree in 1999. I studied abroad in the fall of 1997 at Roehampton University in London and had the hands-down best experience ever on Spring 1998's Semester at Sea Voyage through University of Pittsburgh. I earned a master's degree in English and American literature in 2002 from New York University and got certified to teach at Central Washington University in 2003. I earned my National Board Certification in 2009 in early adolescent English/language arts. 

2019-20  will be my 17th year of teaching public school and my tenth year at SHS; I have taught at Redmond High School, Kirkland Junior High, and Beaver Lake Middle School in addition to Skyline.
 
I love to travel--especially to the United Kingdom--to run, read, practice yoga, watch television and movies, and spend time with my family. My daughter, Blythe, is nine. She is in fourth grade at Sunny Hills (Go Mustangs!) and loves Harry Potter, acting, Hamilton, reading, and Les Miserables. 
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My favorite authors include Zadie Smith, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Salman Rushdie, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, T.S. Eliot, Lee Child, Edith Wharton, Moshin Hamid, James Joyce, and Kate Chopin.

                                                                                                                                            Blythe chasing bubbles outside of London's Tate Modern Museum in June, 2018.

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Countries I've Visited

My Upcoming Trips:
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December, 2019--Medellin and Cartagena, Colombia 
February, 2020--Sayulita, Mexico
April 2020--Greece! This is an educational trip for students Doran & I are leading; our seventh European Adventure. Join us!