This blog has died a de facto death over the course of the last year (and, if I’m honest, it’s actually closer to 3 years), and now it’s time to make it de jure. Blame it on the pandemic, blame it on changing priorities, blame it on concerns over increased…
Settling In, So To Speak [BTP]
Two observations, possibly somewhat contradictory, about pandemic living, now closing in on the end of Week 9 of teach/learn/work-from home here in PA: 1) we have actually adapted, in our own weird way, and 2) this is exhausting. Here are three good articles that speak to the second point –…
In a Holding Pattern [BTP]
The stay-at-home order (both de facto and de jure) that is now approaching the end of its fifth week has me in a very jarring place… for a number of reasons, but one I think at the root of it all is that I am simultaneously holding competing senses and…
A Brief Programming Note: Updated URLs
Due to some under-the-hood shenanigans that I won’t even pretend to understand, the URLs for both the blog site and the RSS feed for this blog have had to change. From 4/4/20 forward, the updated URLs are: Blog: https://blog.drdamian.org RSS Feed: https://blog.drdamian.org/feed Thanks to Katie at Reclaim Hosting for diagnosing…
Fraying at the Edges [BTP]
I’ve been working from home for two and a half weeks now by the time this posts Friday morning, and it will have been a solid three that my students, my wife, and my kids have been on “remote instruction” to varying degrees in each of our districts. We are…