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It's about what I felt when I returned to my empty, classroom on Friday, April 24 to pick up some belongings & realized how much I missed seeing my students in person.

A poem about my experience in quarantine.

I am a 6th grade ELA teacher at Turn of River Middle Schoo, and this is a poem my students shared with me called "A World In Isolation". She shared it with me and we worked on it together through distance learning, which I feel deserves recognition.…

Im a kid and I like playing video games.

The library doors are closed. static and still. Inside lay dormant displays. Chairs pushed in. Once you heard pages rustling, tapping of keys, clicks of the mouse, the rush of footsteps up the grand staircase, a hypnotic cacophony of voices…

April was National Poetry Month. As a distraction from Covid-19 I challenged my children to write a poem to discuss at month's end. This is my poem

what I do every day.

The best part of this horrific pandemic is our grand-daughter, Nami Enid Khan, age 2 ½. When her day care closed down in March, her mother had to decide how she would continue to do her job as a nurse tending to people with end stage renal disease.…

In mid March we travelled to Alaska for the birth of our daughter Hannah’s firstborn. Arriving the day before his due date we enjoyed a few days waiting while things were getting more and more hairy in the Lower 48 with Covid-19. And in fact most…