It’s official. Eighty percent of our family is now back at school. Naturally, not much about the first day went according to The Plan I painstakingly detailed in The Land of My Mind. The night before school started, for instance, the garbage disposal clogged, impertinent enough to reject the straw I someone inadvertently put in […]
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I Haven’t Fallen Off the Face of the Earth
Hey, I just wanted to let all of you know I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth that, oh whoops, turned out to be flat after all. I just done got myself into a bit of a fix here, on account of a busted sink, a busted oven (yes, again!!!), a baby-girl […]
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Further Thoughts On Going Back To School
A few short weeks ago, I found myself standing in front of a classroom of high school students, teaching a pre-reading lesson I’d prepared on the Shakespearean play Julius Caesar. After almost eight years out of the classroom, the moment, complete with new students, a new locale, and new educators evaluating me, initially felt surreal. […]