13 Month: February 2022 (page 1 of 2)

A person within nature as trees bend with their message.

Meeting the Mentor

It is nature that saved me during the hard times of Covid, particularly listening with my senses to nature, and being mindful and occupying the present moment. I…

An anxious person on the phone seeking I.T. help.

The Crack Where the Light Gets In

With a quick pivot from in person to online at the beginning of Covid, and having never taught online, I had technological problems that reduced me to tears….

Family camping while burning plane - COVID - is crashing in the background

Call to adventure. COVID calls while we camp

In March 2020, my reading break vacation was cancelled due to COVID lockdown. Instead of flying to Mexico, my family went camping off the grid for a winter…

Teacher sees student with mask below their chin instead of over their mouth and noses.

Wash, rinse, repeat: Mask on, mask off, mask on, mask off …

Every day at work I remind children in at our Elementary school to lift up their masks from under their chins and put the mask over their mouth…

stick figure pushes large button

Pushing buttons

Stick figure is pushing a huge button, again and again and again.

Stick figure falls into hole, knocked over by Covid

Help! I’ve fallen into a hole and I can’t get out.

Covid knocks me into a giant hole that changes the trajectory of my work life at Capilano.

A sleeping person is told to \

The Call to Adventure

When Covid-19 began, I was scheduled to go on a Paid Educational Leave. It impacted me very little that first year while I productively worked writing and researching…

A figure in front of a screen full of zoom faces.

Wash-Rinse-Repeat

Much of my day is spent on Zoom. It gets tiring, but it’s okay if I can see the faces of my students.

2 years ago, the first month of lockdown consisted of my wife and living and working out of our 2 bedroom apt. in the west end of vancouver.

The first 2 weeks of lockdown

2 years ago, the first month of lockdown consisted of my wife and living and working out of our 2 bedroom apt. in the west end of vancouver.

staring at a screen, and an endless wave of help desk tickets, clicking for eternity.

Life on the Help Desk

staring at a screen, and an endless wave of help desk tickets, clicking for eternity.