We’ve had a mild winter in the Catskills of New York – until yesterday! The temperature is dipping below zero and with the wind chill it is between -17 and -23 degrees. Brrrrr! To our dismay, Steph slept in her van last night somewhere in PA. Yikes! She has two “zero blankets,” but that doesn’t …
Listening to NPR, today, we heard teachers discuss the worsening state of students’ academic performance and behavior problems due to the pandemic. One teacher in Maine spoke of her four-year-old preschoolers who are not only oppositional, but they “curse like sailors and pirates, too.” This is a crisis and we plan to do what we …
I was once asked, “is your blog a form of therapy?” Today, another person wrote me saying, “I wish it were (a) less frequent and (b) more about what’s going on in your world and the wide world, and less about you.” I also received this comment, today… “Your thoughts actually bring up for me …