ON TEACHING: Learning from Discouragement

Here’s an entry from my teaching journal in 2002, concerning my work in English class with 8th and 9th graders. I was discouraged, but luckily I was able to learn something from my disappointment in myself …

… and here are some scenes from our lovely sunrise walk this morning along the Mystic River …

… and here I am with daughter Annie after a wonderful and very chilly walk on the beach …