I keep getting the strange sense of deja vu. Feeling like I’ve been here before. Which is crazy on the surface of things. After all, this is a global pandemic, the likes of which have not been seen for 100 years. None of us have been here before. Yet, for those of us who haveContinue reading “Feels Like I’ve Been Here Before”
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When You Can No Longer Rely on Distractions
It’s my first day of spring break. And I’m struggling. For the other 18 years of my teaching career, I reached spring break both exhausted and relieved, ready for a break from the relentless and overly-structured schedule of teaching. But this year? I’m panicky, only now realizing how much I’ve relied on the need toContinue reading “When You Can No Longer Rely on Distractions”
Thoughts From a World Turned Upside Down
Trying to Think in a Time of Stress
I wrote a blog post over the weekend. Then, after it was published, I went back and reread it. And I noticed something startling. In half a dozen cases, I left out whole words. Not typos. Not the wrong word. Or even a missing letter. Simply no word at all. And that’s not the allContinue reading “Trying to Think in a Time of Stress”