Month: August 2020

It’s that time of year again (or time of every-three-years) when I have to cough up $$$ to keep this space running. Usually I wax philosophical for a coup...

It’s been a helluva week. The kids started distance learning, and it’s going okay. They aren’t getting nearly the amount of instructional time...

Thank you all for your comments on my last post. I found them to be very enlightening. It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who feels that it̵...

Today is my daughter’s last day of camp. This camp was only supposed to be two weeks but it had to be three weeks because of a mandate from the city. When...

I have a much better idea of my schedule this school year and it’s… not great. It’s going to be really hard to work this out. I have a 1st gra...

School starts next week and I feel like I’m standing at a precipice. I’m working frantically to put up some guardrails but I don’t have the resources I need and...

Well, I got through the week. It turned out my son’s dentist appointment is actually next Wednesday, and I accidentally turned off the recording of the pr...

Well, I’m officially in it. And I have less than five hours of kid-free time each day since my son’s martial arts camp is really short. Today I film...

There has been some press lately on academic pods – families pooling their resources to provide support or instruction during the pandemic. Some of these ...

And before I knew it, the summer was over. Next week I start work, for real. Well, for semi-real. It’s all professional development, but I’m also pr...