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Bruce is still under medical supervision and other News of the Day

Posted on March 18, 2022 by JANET L BARKER

Thanks Dear Readers for your thoughtful notes of concern about my ex-husband, Bruce. He is in a “rehab facility” doing the best he can to make sure his foot remains his foot. As those of you who’ve either experienced or witnessed the debilitating effects… Continue Reading “Bruce is still under medical supervision and other News of the Day”

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A Whole New World

Posted on November 10, 2021 by JANET L BARKER

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You know the “Aladdin” song? (just in case you need a reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq2KLYRLQyw ) Well, that’s how I’m feeling these glorious November days, my new favorite month of the year, next to retirement October and September, the months the world goes back to work… Continue Reading “A Whole New World”

Category: UncategorizedTags: #alanmenken, #covid, #disney, #disneyland, #educator, #essentialeducators, #grandarents, #granddaughters, #gratitude, #HongKonggrandparents, #hope, #ILoveNewYork, #love, #loveeverymoment, #pandemic, #Queens, #retiredgrandma, #retiredteacher, #retirement, #timrice, #wholenewworld

Book Mountain

Posted on November 2, 2021 by JANET L BARKER

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I’m sure it’s OK with you if my eyes are misty. Let me tell you why: For the first time in two years, I walked into a bookstore. Granted, it was a Big Box-type bookstore, still, there were row after row of hard bound… Continue Reading “Book Mountain”

Category: UncategorizedTags: ##imagination, #barnesandnoble, #coffeeandbooks, #covid, #favoritebooks, #giftofbooks, #grandparenting, #grandparents, #loveeverymoment, #mysideofthemountain, #Nature, #powerofreading, #powerofwords, #reading, #retiredteacher

Where have i been?

Posted on March 21, 2021 by JANET L BARKER

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Good question. In the garbage disposal crunching up all the waste, all the debris, all the junk. Behind a screen teaching others. Not sleeping. Hunched over. Worried. Fixing. Building. Grandparenting. Working. Mostly working. Existing. Waiting. Worrying. Worrying. Worrying. Holding my breathe. Counting down the… Continue Reading “Where have i been?”

Category: UncategorizedTags: #Californiasunsets, #covid, #education, #grandparenting, #grandparents, #joyofteaching, #positve, #retirededucator, #retirement, #teaching

retraction, expansion

Posted on January 17, 2021 by JANET L BARKER

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I don’t know if it is the hot, Southern California January weather or exhaustion from the last four years of constant havoc, or anticipation of a new, hopeful president and Vice President, or the fact that I submitted my retirement paperwork a few days… Continue Reading “retraction, expansion”

Category: UncategorizedTags: #boisset, #budget, #covid, #education, #grandparent, #health, #joebiden, #minimalism, #newstart, #retirement, #southerncalifornia, #teaching, #wine

Fall, i will not

Posted on September 29, 2020 by JANET L BARKER

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It’s happening. Whether or not we like it or not: The seasons are changing. It’s Week 7 Distant Teaching. It’s the reason I haven’t had a life, a spare minute, to write, to think, to do anything beyond plan, check-in with students, email parents,… Continue Reading “Fall, i will not”

Category: UncategorizedTags: #autumn, #change, #covid, #distantteaching, #education, #fall, #grandparents, #middleschool, #newyork, #newyorkcity, #preretirement, #teachers