On Saturday, the little village we live in had their annual summer celebration. I don’t know how many years this has been a thing, but I know when Rachel and Zach were first “going out” his parents drove all the way across town to pick her up and come back up to the north for…
One of the things I failed to accomplish during the hectic month of May was to pay tribute to one of our family’s favorite educators. When we decided to move across town in 1996, our move was not happening until December but thankfully we already owned our new house in the fall. We were able…
As I run into different friends and readers, I am asked how I am enjoying not teaching. I am enjoying it very much indeed. It is a great and tangible relief to not have our dining room table and one of the back bedrooms dedicated to piles of handouts, work to be graded, graded…