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Survive Teaching // Teaching to Survive

By on June 15, 2021

I sit, a woman of average means and multiplying wrinkles, as a survivor of the Zoomiverse. I’m not sure if I’m better for having taught a lifetime of high school classes on Zoom, or if I can look at a computer screen the same way ever again, but I…


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Taking out the Trash: 2020, A year in review

By on January 1, 2021

2020 was NOT TRASH. I am so tired of hearing, in spite of the trauma, loss and anxiety-riddled year that 2020 was, the negativity infused in the number 2020 as if we are entitled to more life than we have been given even in a pandemic. What’s more, if…


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A cactus asks forgiveness: The Grand Canyon, Sedona and Tucson with a friend

By on November 24, 2020

“Take a picture of me!” she said and ran close to a Jumping Cholla (which we thought was a Joshua Tree). I didn’t think to shout be super careful; cactus having a way of seeming innocent even though we all know they aren’t. In seconds she had spikes in…

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All you have to do to sell all of your things and move across the world is to do it.