Tonight's Poet Corner: Introspection
All right, lovelies. It's official. I will not be returning to my high school campus for the rest of the school year. It's weird, for lack of a better word. It's just weird. Discombobulating? Disorienting? Guess I had more words than I thought. Anyway, today, I drove up to the high school I work at and picked up a few things. Being in my classroom for the first time in three weeks...it definitely made me feel a wee bit sentimental, I'll tell you that right now. No amount of work I do online for my students is going to compensate for being physically present for kids who really need said presence. I'm trying very hard to stay confident that, ultimately, my fellow citizens will be wise enough to take this pandemic seriously. Arden and I don't walk much beyond our neighborhood these days. We've been spending more time on the patio if we go outside. I'm not exactly working on large creative projects because I'm still trying to settle into the new nor