Full swing– that’s where we are now. I’m just returned from Parent Night, and the school year is four weeks old. It feels like normal, feels like the way it’s always been. I don’t remember (for now) sleeping in on weekday mornings and having long days to putter around the house. We’re used to it; […]
Read moreThe desks are empty now. Three thoughtful students dutifully stacked their chairs up on their desks, but otherwise, the room is looking decidedly askew: chairs at cross-angles, desks counter-posed. From where I sit, I can see one pencil abandoned under the long table at the back of the room, and a copy of Lord of […]
Read moreI did my student teaching under the careful oversight of one of the most talented teachers I have ever known. She also had an enormous variety of coats. But it was her talent and energy that stood out the most. She was enormously energetic. Enormously. I liked student teaching well enough, but most of the […]
Read moreI was Incredulous. That already it was Tuesday morning, with the Easter break over. That already it was 5:14. Now 5:45. Time to get up. I was Mother. Warming the oatmeal, pouring the orange juice, parceling out the vitamins. Calling the children to breakfast. I was Late. Muttering at the red light. At the driver […]
Read moreEverett just reminded me of what I once told him was the paper-grading method my crazy writing professor in college said he had: You throw all the papers down the stairs.The papers that reach the bottom get an “A.” I’m not sure that’s great pedagogy, but sometimes it sounds good….
Read moreSome days you are an excellent teacher– on fire, really. Your lesson plans are amazing, your students are attentive. Your technological components work as if you designed them yourself. Your students have insightful comments and questions. No one complains about their grades. No one complains about their homework. Everyone is focused. Everyone is listening. You […]
Read moreWhen Emma Grace was born, I waited for the night when I would dream about her. It takes a while, you know, for the new people in your life to show up in your dreams. And when they do, I always feel that they have finally Arrived. They have Presence enough in my everyday to […]
Read moreI had a conversation with a friend tonight. With Tworivers, to be exact. That might not sound like a big deal to you but, Believe You Me, conversations with friends are Few and Far Between these days, seeing as I’m at work All Day and then busy with children until they go to bed and […]
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