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Changing the Focus of This Blogging Site



I am going to be changing the focus of this whole site. I originally set it up to be a place for me to think about and share information about education and teaching. As a reluctant writer I did okay with it for a while but the pandemic really changed the education landscape for me (and I suspect most educators). I found that I lost my drive to innovate as an educator during this complex time in education. I just have sort of existed and survived these last couple of years. So that is not anything really worth sharing, except to say it makes me tremendously sad.


This school year has been rough as I was diagnosed with stage four uterine cancer in December and that changed everything about my life. I started this school year thinking I might retire and so I wanted to just make it an amazing year of teaching and learning. That never happened as my health problems that lead to my cancer diagnosis started right at the beginning of the year. So I have missed a lot of work, and am currently on leave. I am completely disconnected from my passion of teaching right now.


I have nothing really to say about teaching and learning right now. But I have some things to say about this shitty cancer journey I am on. I will be changing up this site to have it be less focused on teaching and more focused on my new life normal: cancer patient. I hope to sprinkle in some other writing as well just to lighten it up.


I don’t know if anyone read this blog when it was about teaching but it was a good place for me to think about teaching. I don’t know if anyone will read it now, but again it will be a good place for me to think about cancer and my life going forward.



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