Last year I floundered my way through my first year as an elementary school teacher. Between trying to figure out how to teach kids multiplication, manage a classroom, get enough sleep, and simply stay afloat, I felt like I was…
My year as a 3rd grade teacher is officially over. And I am grieving. I won’t be returning as a classroom teacher in the fall, but it’s not the job I’m grieving. It’s the kids. All year long, my patience…
Last week I talked about the dreaded question young adults (and people in general) face all too often: “So what are you doing now?” I explained that many of us hate that question because it evokes feelings of shame and…
It’s graduation season, so I hear this question being posed more than any other time of year: “So what are you doing now?” A little part of me deflates every time someone asks me this. Nothing impressive, that’s what, I…
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