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So many people lament the lost time in classrooms that kids have suffered through because of the pandemic and they focus on all the things kids have not learned and things that kids have not done. As a retired educator I’d like to change perspectives for a minute and think of this another way. Families in 2020 were given a unique gift of bonding time that is generally unavailable in…

I remember getting the phone call as I was getting ready for work. Mark a teacher I was working with called to say NewYork was under attack. It was an endlessly long day, helping kids frame the information, wondering about family in NewYork, calling to discover all circuits were busy. I was 5,000 miles from the nearest relative besides my husband, Shawn. Air traffic shut down. We were on a…

At the first stirrings of spring, my dad and I went into the local farm and fleet and ordered 2 out of the shell ducks. We also got 8 more chicks, Rhode Island Reds, to go with our other chickens. After some discussion we were ready to try ducks, but we had no idea what kind. We talked to a young man who worked in that department and with a…