I am preparing a syllabus. Better said, I am preparing to prepare a syllabus. I have opened the syllabus from last year. I scroll. I rename the file. I save it as v1, even though I know this is not yet version one of anything. Preparing to prepare a syllabus—
I love making my bed. Even if that has not always been the case, I do not remember a time that I didn’t like making my bed. I recently learned that someone wrote a book about making your bed. I was at a bookstore a few weeks before Christmas,
The past week was unusually windy. Gusts were strong enough to knock out power across the region, and for several hours the house was quieter than usual. When the lights went out, nothing dramatic happened. I waited, made note of it, and went on with the day, aware that somewhere