I have been in therapy for at least six months. Maybe a little more, maybe a little less. It took me forever to get there. ….
Category: Dark Times
These posts involve my experience in remote learning, positive and negative. Comments welcome!
Send kids back to school they said. And so we did. But the emotional warfare of Covid can be worse than actually getting the virus. ….
My daughter turned 12 in March. No one really prepared me for the transition. It felt like just yesterday, all problems could be solved by ….
I am writing this on a Saturday night at 8:46, sitting in my faded Christmas kitty jammies and watching a Save Britney documentary on Hulu. ….
I smiled a lot today and no one was really the wiser. I cracked a ton of jokes and nodded at all the right moments ….
We can all agree, fantasy land or not, that what we want this fall is for things to go as smoothly as possible for the students who struggled last spring and maybe into the summer.
I spent an entire week in Bar Harbor recently and we had some overcast weather. This sent my family and friends into the stores to ….
July is typically one of my favorite months of the year. June is done, August isn’t here yet. It is usually a month of true relaxation for those of us who work in education. But this year is different. I can feel an impending cloud coming in the works.
That is our routine. We typically always meet in Hallowell and we solve a plethora of problems during our warm up, run and cool down and stretch. In April and May, I would always look behind my parked car and stare wistfully at the spot where the chairs go. The colorful chairs. The summertime chairs.
We are all assuming that everyone thinks the same way we do, because it makes sense in our brains, but then the comment hits an offensive home run because not everyone does agree.