I must confess I’ve struggled this past week putting together my thoughts in an organized enough manner to share them. Normally I rely on the events happening in our valley,
In many families, Thanksgiving is notorious for being fertile ground for fights over sensitive subjects. Be it politics, money or differences in religion, some topics are best left undiscussed around
As the school year begins to wind down and the light at the end of the teaching tunnel is no longer the size of a decimal point, teachers all across the country are gearing up for end-of-year state testing in whatever shape or form their state happens to dole them out as. After an absolute discombobulated, bizarre year fraught with quarantines, illnesses, absences, online journeys to galaxies far far away, and chicken nugget shortages, the teacher stress level is becoming quite apparent as the volume of caffeine consumption and liquid Tylenol IVâs increases.
To put it bluntly, weâre all losing our minds! I like to think teachers resemble the phrase âMy mind is currently like my internet browser â 19 tabs are open, three of them are frozen and I have no idea where the music is coming from.â Thatâs me.
Now that daylight savings time has officially started, Iâve sent out my annual memo to the dogs, cat and chickens to âshut-up already and deal with it!â â like that ever helps. The adjustment around here takes awhile as morning schedules are modified and start times for just about everything get ignored, although I still get to school when itâs dark so not much has changed that way. Things will even out soon enough, though, and Iâll be back to procrastinating stuff just as much as before.
Iâm wandering about here in my classroom, having dismissed the kids for the afternoon, reflecting on the events of last year about this time when our world was forcefully âturned upside down.â I recall listening to a health official explaining over the radio back then that this particular virus was causing deep concern because people could become infected âcarriersâ and pass the virus to others before showing any symptoms of their own for up to