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The Orphan in My Family Tree: Belonging
Forty Years on the Great Plains The 1920s brought the ordinary rhythms of small-town family life for. Fritz and Theresa’s family — trips to visit relatives, notices of paid labor, the day-to-day texture that fills life between headline moments. And then, in quick succession, came loss. On November 6, 1925, Theresa passed away in Hartington…
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The Orphan in My Family Tree: Grace and Hard Luck
Fritz and Theresa Content Warning: Before you dive into this piece of my family’s history, I want to gently share that this story touches on themes of addiction. If this topic is difficult or triggering for you, please feel free to sit this one out or come back to it another day. Take care of yourself. The…
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Speaking Up: Considering Professional Identity in Online Engagement
If you work in education, you’ve no doubt seen the National Education Association’s Free Speech Cheat Sheet for Public School Educators. This list outlines professional conduct that will keep you on the right side of the law, as well as in line with almost any district policy. You can find a deeper dive into educators’…
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Reading is Life
The last week of the school year hits different every year. While the circulation stats, anecdotal evidence, and conversations with colleagues reveal many of our students are reading more than last year, we still have so very many students who are struggling and below grade level. I do not despair for them, because the teachers…
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You Belong Here (And So Does Everything Else, Apparently)
The narrative details a hectic week in a middle school library, highlighting the multifaceted responsibilities of a librarian. It begins with the librarian setting up a “You Belong Here” theme while juggling tasks like managing inter-library loans and addressing a parent complaint about a book. Each day presents unique challenges: hosting events, coordinating logistics, and…
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Snow on the Mountains
by Kate Gukeisen, written around 2016 Ten years agothe fighting got bad. Ten years agoWe madecasserolesthat we expected would go uneaten. We madecallsthat left us weeping on the flooruntil we put on brave faces to pick up children from school. Ten years agowe askedourselves when it would get better then we hopedit just wouldn’t get…
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Quarantine Coping Skills
This thing that is happening. It is global. Global. That means that it is happening to all of us and we are all doing our best to muddle through.
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Reading Goals 2020
The Backlist Reader Challenge: fifteen books I’ve been hoarding on my To Read shelf are getting read this year! 📚 #BacklistReader
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The Orphan in My Family Tree, Part 8
This is Part 8 of The Orphan in My Family Tree. It is the true tale of my ongoing search for the parents of my great great grandpa Fritz, who was orphaned in New York City in the late 1870s and sent, at the age of seven, to live with a foster family in Bow Valley, Nebraska.…
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The Orphan in My Family Tree, Part 7
This is Part 7 of The Orphan in My Family Tree. It is the true tale of my ongoing search for the parents of my great great grandpa Fritz, who was orphaned in New York City in the late 1870s and sent, at the age of seven, to live with a foster family in Bow Valley, Nebraska.…
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