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I feel very lucky – as I did during Thanksgiving – that traveling to see extended family is not something we normally do during the holidays. We don...

Yesterday my principal texted us to tell us that a colleague’s husband had passed away unexpectedly. The colleague had surgery for a broken arm resulting from a...

I read a post recently and was shocked to learn that this person’s life is unfolding in very different ways than my own. In the spring most of us were und...

For some reason my break starts today (I have no idea why – we usually only get the Friday before when Christmas is earlier in the week). I might not unde...

I haven’t been showing up here much (although returning to posts from this time last year shows that I’m showing up more now than I did then). IR...

So I did end up going back and looking at posts from this time of year in 2019 and 2018, and you know what? I wasn’t that much happier back then. Maybe I ...

I’m finding it hard to remember what is normal and what’s not. Is it normal for me to count the days between breaks like this? I can’t remembe...

I can’t believe our first break of the school year is almost over. Today is the last day we actually have off and tomorrow starts the weekend. I have to s...

I’ve been dreading the conversation with my parents about Thanksgiving. I know they are less cautious about possible exposure – they eat at a common...

We have been really lucky since shelter-in-place started that the majority of our social circle was similarly concerned about exposure to the coronavirus. We we...