both sides now

I 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 […]

Autumn

The juniors want to do “walking TAPS.” This sounds ominous, but isn’t: TAPS is total and perfect silence, our ritual for beginning class. I didn’t invent it, I took it, and the way I do it, I put on a video with some soothing image and relatively soothing music (though sometimes if it’s a bit […]