I Am a Daydream Believer, and You Should Be Too

We sure do make life hard on ourselves, don’t we? For example: the afternoon nap. Ah, glorious afternoon nap, how I miss you! Oh, sure, it’s a good and important thing for preschool children, and it’s excusable when it’s Grandma Madeline in her La-Z-Boy. But for the rest of us? Sorry, no. And daydreaming? Whether…

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Help! I’m Chaperoning a Field Trip.

I’m going on a field trip this week. It’ll be the first one I’ve ever witnessed from the chaperone’s perspective. I’ve done it as a teacher—with all the joys of carrying permission slips, contact information, EpiPens, inhalers, extra pencils, snacks, and a position of ultimate authority just a smidge shy of the bus driver’s (who…

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