Category Archives: Teaching Reflections

Reflection on being supervised At the end of February 2020, I got a sore throat…then a fever…then a raspy cough that left me feeling like I had broken ribs…but…the show must go on. (By the way, while this was mere weeks before the Pandemic shut our school (and our nation) down, I tested and discoveredContinue reading “This blog post is an assignment for my MA program.”

Before heading off to Namibia for my 2.5 year stint in the Peace Corps, my mom and I sat and chuckled over life’s funny little things. I don’t know the origin, but it was at about that time that we heard the saying “Some day, you’re gonna wake up dead!” From that one conversation evolvedContinue reading “The Indisputable Joy of Preparing”

A fun milestone in the school year is 100 days in. My school is starting September 8th and if I’ve counted right that puts us at about Friday, February 12th. The dead of Winter…or the promise of Spring lingers over mid February like indecision over a moot point because for forever, Winter has given wayContinue reading “100 days”

21 August, 2020 Knowing is almost always better than not knowing and I’m about to report a bunch of punches and setback, but I’ll do what I always do best…pivot, side-step, recoil, conjure and get creative to respond to the situation at hand. I shouldn’t be this hard. It should be this hard, but itContinue reading “Knocking on a bolted door”