"Differentiation" is making a comeback in my district. I feel like "cohort" is a classic - a solid pick in any year.

I want to visit a new city - maybe Montréal?

As a person with purse chapstick, backpack chapstick, coat chapstick, kitchen counter chapstick, bathroom chapstick, bedside table chapstick, and travel bag chapstick, your concerns are 100% valid and I support you.

I was going to read your John Doar book anyway but now that I know he quoted from Richard III? Moving up the to-read list a few notches!

I am on high alert for this - as a teacher who works with teenagers and as an adult who is active in my town's antiracism coalition. Not here for it at all.

Yes! Walking and the elliptical are super important to my mental health as well as my physical health.

Had a delicious Christmas luncheon of Eggs Benedict with my family and now I'm cozy on the couch, enjoying some hazelnut decaf and checking in on the skyline.

Yeah, I would just as soon not have smoke-filled restaurants, waiting rooms, and other public indoor spaces become a thing again. We achieved a major public health victory when we de-normed that practice and shouldn't forget so easily what it was like.

I actually gasped. I read your description and I was still unprepared for the elegance, the subtlety, the DEPTH

My brain was just pretty mean to me for no apparent reason BUT tomorrow is the last day of school for the calendar year and then I have twelve days off!