Overwhelmed, overloaded, crushed. These words describe not just the fuse that services my classroom, but my overall situation. (It’s okay. The fuses are just in the hallway. And half the time, the teachers in the other classroom I share power with go flip it.) Swamped. Submerged. Inundated. These words describe not just what happened to […]
Read More under itI spend part of most work days circling the school. One of our primary treatments at the school where I teach is walking. Ideally, walking outside. Down the front steps, around the corner of the building, where the church’s sanctuary is, and under its overhang, where a fence protects extra junk that we tell the […]
Read More both sides nowMy brother was explaining about the dryer: “Don’t use high heat. Don’t do that to your clothes.” I was in his basement, and I was realizing that someday he would likely say something similiar to me that I wouldn’t understand at all: “You have to blorp when you bleep blop, Liz. Otherwise the bloo won’t […]
Read More The HeatMy long road trip: let’s start with the very transcendent. A very good place to start. In a small wooden hall on a pier over the Atlantic, dozens and dozens of my extended family danced so hard there are concerns about structural damage. Boy cousins had dance battles. An MVP cousin directed all the gentlemen […]
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Going On 