TONIGHT: “THE BLIND SIDE”

Deisy Vargas, one of Elsie Allen High’s great Lobos, shares about this favorite film, for which Sandra Bullock won an Academy Award. What’s your favorite sports film?

TUESDAY NIGHT: A REPORTER… THEN I BECAME A TEACHER

Miriam Silver, a former reporter for The Hartford Courant and The Press Democrat, describes her decision to switch careers and become an English teacher. It’s the first in a series of educators talking about making transitions and figuring out life.

THURSDAY NIGHT: JOSEPH PIKE AND THE INDIAN ON OLD CUB

The next installment in “American Risotto,” vignettes on four generations of an unusual American family.

And it’s all here at DigitaleStories: The Press Democrat’s YA great stories blog.