The year started great, and then as often happens in life--wham! You're on your face in a snowbank. And, sometimes it takes a while to right oneself. The best intentions often come to not.
The bad news is that a recent setback with my health made it impossible for me to continue teaching full time last fall, and next year is not a sure thing, either. As a teacher, merely being able to gut it out everyday just wasn't fair to the young mind in my care, so we opted to put the munchkin in a small, independent school here in town. There are pros and cons, but overall things are going well.
For me personally, it's been a slow, arduous process of grieving the loss of what I'd done every day for nearly ten years. Repurposing spaces once full has been a bit of a challenge. It's as though the much starker walls of the room happily dubbed "education central" looked at me and said, "What now?"
Yet, as my dear friend, Melissa, reminded me, "What now? can be a fantastic question!"
So, I've been away from the blogosphere with nary a word. What have I been up to? Well, it's possible that I may have slept through the first few months of the fall in addition to generally staying home taking radical care of myself. Learning how to be gracious with myself in my weakness has been a huge learning experience.
The good news is that I've more time to write and to create, to synthesize a lot of what I've learned and experienced in the last ten years of teaching,and to encourage other IEs still in the trenches. Energy is returning and with it the desire to keep venturing out of my snowbank burrow.
Who knows? I might turn this into a real blog on which posts are regularly written and everything.
Happy winter!
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