I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because when you're being a squeaky wheel, you're also really letting people know who you are.

I was an elementary school teacher.

When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the squiggly 'E.' I wanted, from an early age, to be a writer, and that name - that E - was a way of pretending I knew how to do it.

I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.

My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.

It's funny - in elementary school, I went by Amber. I never liked Tiffani.