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reflections on a sunny Sunday morning 11 days from Christmas heart heavy from grief from the world’s tragedies yet trying to find the joy of Advent this morning cognitive dissonance meets a purring cat on my lap and joy or...

all those times when I said “I love you” and you replied “I know” I thought you were just being you sarcastic New York you but today I heard it referenced on This is Us which was one of our shows and it hit me that all those...

wish I could stay on this side of the window today cold December Monday morning does that to me

The first week of class, we go over classroom rules. One of the most important is I don’t allow gum. When some students complain, I tell the class to look underneath their desks. Many of the student’s heads disappear like they...

For twenty-five years, I’ve taught in a room with no windows. In the winter, I drive to school in the dark and go home in the dark. I call it submarine duty. Because the air-conditioning is broken, the thermometer on my desk...

Some of my students can only tell time if they have a digital clock. For them, there is only “now”, no indication of how many hours have past, or when the future will happen. Tell them to move clockwise or counter-clockwise and...