I went to my son’s school tonight. This isn’t something that is abnormal. I’m there all the time. But tonight I went to help kindergarten...

On August 4, 2019, I sent my only baby to preschool. That morning, I woke him up, I picked out his clothes, I packed his lunch, and I...

For the first time in my adult life, I am sitting in my house during the last week of December having not just finished a teaching...

About a year ago, well nine months ago, but it feels like a year, I wrote about how to love a family with cancer. We had just become “a...

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For 15 years and some change—15 days’ worth of change, to be exact, I have had the best job in the world. I am a teacher. And for almost...

Dear Mama, I hear you’re sending your baby to Kindergarten. A real school. With a principal and teachers and book rental fees and the...

I sliced an onion the other night. And it made me cry. Onions usually make me cry, but this one made me cry for a different reason. You...

As we begin Teacher Appreciation Week in what has felt like the longest, hardest school year in human history, I think it is important to...

Today is Tuesday, April 20. It is the 14th anniversary of the day that changed my life forever. It is the anniversary of the day that I...

I am tired today. Like, really tired. The kind of tired that you can feel in your bones, the kind that feels like all the fight has been...

I’ve been trying to write for three weeks. Each time, I think, “I need a topic,” and then I let that thought fall away, claiming the...

Three weeks ago, there were ten inches of snow on the ground, and for days, I felt like I couldn't breathe--snow makes me feel anxious,...

“Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.” The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said this, and as I’ve read it over the...

Monday night, I drove my husband home from Southern Indiana in a snow storm. We left his meeting a little after 8:30pm, and just as we...

You know those Facebook posts—the ones where your friends ask for prayers, or the ones that share bad news? I hate seeing those. I bet...

I burned a bagel not long ago. And I promptly started to sob. On the morning of the burning of the bagel, I woke up groggy after a long...