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I have been silent here about what is happening in our country. I can be silent – I can wait and try to figure out the right thing to say – because ...

{This post was written last week, before everything went to hell in a hand basket. It feels important that I mention that.} Mali recently wrote a post about exp...

I purposely didn’t reas the news today. Yesterday it was so awful, and I felt so hopeless reading it, that today I decided I was going to step away. And I did. ...

I’m almost tempted to go back to posts from the last few years at this time (weeks before my school year comes to a close) to remind myself just how stres...

We attended our son’s Kindergarten promotion on Wednesday via Zoom. Both sets of grandparents were also “in attendance,” but since you canR...

I got a lot done today, and I’m feeling pretty productive right now. I also feel that I legitimately leveled up in my handy-woman-around-the-house role. W...

Thank you to those who reached out after my last post with resources and support. I really appreciate it. The weekend was a little better. My husband and I had ...

Sheltering in place is hard. Sheltering in place while working full time and also supervising distance learning for your kids is really hard. But the hardest th...

Our St. Louis plans were officially cancelled and our daughter’s Girl Scout sleep away camp the last week of summer was also called off, so our summer is ...

Being in my classroom today was a totally surreal experience. It was like walking through a time machine back into my normal life. Everything was where I left i...