A Letter to My Readers
Hello! Happy September ~ and a belated Welcome Back to School. When I was a teacher I often kicked off the year with a letter introducing myself to my students and encouraging them to write back. I wanted to know their hopes for the coming year and give them the opportunity to share with me something about themselves that would help me to see them as more than the sum of their grades. Their letters came back with stories of dogs and baseball, of dancing lessons, of dungeons and dragons. This year, with the world being as chaotic as it's become, I wondered what my students would write about if I were still a classroom teacher. Dungeons and Dragons? Dogs and baseball? Dancing lessons? Or is the outside world crashing into the boundaries of middle school life? The outside world is certainly crashing into my writing life. I worry about my children, my grandchild, my readers. When I was a teacher I could close the door and create a space where kindness was the rule and thoughtful acts ...
