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I’ve been thinking a lot about the “why” of this blog. Why do I keep writing it? Why, after long absences, do I come back here? It’s not...

My daughter has a cold, so we kept her home from camp today. Actually, she had a sore throat on Tuesday afternoon, but we assumed it was the heat and her mask a...

There are ways I remember the tunnel. They aren’t necessarily distinct, and I don’t always remember them in order. They overlap too, because each de...

I started packing my classroom yesterday. I got six boxes finished. I would have packed more but I had to spend a couple hours taking apart the binders of my st...

The past two weeks have been busy. Very busy. A lot of what was planned was really fun, but it didn’t leave for much free time. {Some of what kept us busy...

Monday and Tuesday I held my final zoom meetings in each class. Wednesday I waved goodbye to each 8th grader as they drove through our Promotion Celebration. Th...

I was going to write a post tonight – a real one! – but instead I sewed a bunch of patches on my son’s ki for martial arts camp that starts th...

My daughter turns 11 in a week. We celebrated with friends yesterday because one of her crew is out of town for the next two weeks. We went down to my mom’s fri...

One thing I want to continue long after the need to social distance has ended is hosting outside. Having guests is stressful for me because my house is never gu...

They figured out who in my class shared the zoom links with the racist asshats who came in and said the horrible, ugly, hateful things. The kid got a three day ...