Along the Road to Home

I just pulled a loaf of homemade bread out of the oven and after buttering it, I stood back to take a look at my creation.  It looked good to me with a golden crust and even though perhaps it wouldn't have brought home any blue ribbons from the Reno County Fair, for a girl who never took home economics in high school it wasn't all that bad. One of the amazing miracles that has come forth during this time of Covid 19 is that I finally at long last learned how to make bread.  At first it wasn't because I just had this burning desire to mix up dough and watch it rise.  No, it was because one day Mike and I walked into the grocery store and the entire bread section had been wiped out by panicked shoppers who feared there wouldn't be enough bread to go around for all who wanted it.  Nothing at all remained that day to purchase from the north side of Aisle 18.  I decided then that it was time to take matters into my own hands, literally. And so I did. I learned to mak...

A week of virtual school, continuous learning from home via the internet, has been completed in our district here along the border of Kansas and Oklahoma.     For the past five days my students have checked in daily on our Google Classroom site to find out what lessons to do for the day.  As a beginning teacher 41 years ago, I never would have imagined seeing the faces of my students on a site called Google Meet , but now even that has come to pass.  Twice each day, for 20 minutes at a time, I logged on with the kids as we discussed the lessons they had worked on. To say it is a challenge would be an understatement but it is a challenge that is worth it.  I have devoted my entire life to being an advocate for the well being of children and their families.  No virus, especially Covid-19, is going to deter me from doing what I know is right and good.  I owe that to the kids and as I think about it now, I also owe it to myself.  I'm at the very ...