The Sweet Spot
I think I'm starting to like my kids... It is Friday night and I've just attended a 3 day writing workshop intended to help some of us teacher types wade through the scary, wordy, commandments known as Common Core. (Fearless leader, if you are reading this, fabulous job! I am only a fraction as scared as I was before the workshop! Only problem I'm seeing is that before the learning, I didn't know how little I knew. Now I am fully aware of my ignorance and potential incapabilities…) One of the activities that we did in the room paired us up in groups of two and had us introduce our partner, answering these three questions: best job you've ever had, best place you've ever lived, and riskiest thing you've ever done. I fretted over that first question. Best job I've ever had? Two jobs came to mind before I started to answer. The first thought was…which one? Then, it dawned on me, neither job was my current one, or being a teacher at al...