![]() ![]() Desperate Plea #2: If you have good suggestions for creative productivity during a crisis (both existential and actual), FEEL FREE to send them my way. ![]() But writing – that thing that results in books? – yeah, it’s not happening. I think about writing all the time, I play with plot while I’m washing the dishes (again), and I even get a bit of research done (we’ll talk about safety coffins in a minute). Even when I have time to write (late nights – that hasn’t changed), there’s an empty space where the words are supposed to be. In addition to the above, there is a house to keep sort of clean (impossible), meals to make (trying to avoid mac and cheese more than once a day), and – oh yeah – writing.Īnd, let’s be very honest with one another, writing is the one thing that has to give when nothing else can or will. Desperate Plea #1: If you have good lesson ideas for six-year-olds, FEEL FREE to send them my way. Their dad is currently conducting a PE class in the basement – which mostly means a lot of wrestling. But hopefully we’ll keep their brains from getting mushy over the next few weeks. We’ve spent time making art, reading, and watching videos of authors reading their picture books on YouTube (thanks HarperCollins for the great resources).Yesterday’s math lesson involved adding up numbers on playing cards, selecting a corresponding number of building blocks, and creating something from the resulting pile. Can I tell you how ill-prepared I am to be a part time kindergarten teacher? A lot ill-prepared, that’s how. ![]() In addition to being a full time dean working from a very small satellite campus (my house), I am now a part-time kindergarten teacher. Perhaps I’ll get good at it just about the same time I can return to the office which, incidentally, is about the same time my new office chair will be delivered. I was never great at them (work-life boundaries) in the best of times, but now I can’t seem to tell where my work day ends and everything else begins. Please note the unraiseable back I attempted (and failed) to fix with duct tape.Īnd it’s a funny thing, working from home, because boundaries get blurred very quickly. I won’t bother explaining SPG to you – whatever you think it is is probably close enough to accurate for you to get the picture. And don’t get me started on my office chair, which is broken beyond repair thanks to repeated abuse perpetrated by my six-year-old twins in an ongoing effort to best one another at the Spinny Chair Game. Now, instead of doing them from my office on campus, I’m working from a small desk in our guestroom. I still have meetings (zoom) and troubleshoot with my faculty (email and phone) and have reports and budgets and enrollment management and all the things that are required of my job. In this strange new world, I’m working from home which is far from the natural habitat of a community college dean. I’m researching, and I’m thinking about writing, and I desperately want to write, but getting those words on paper has been damned near impossible as of late. The ugly truth is I’m having a tough time writing. Let’s talk about creativity in the era of COVID-19. I’m not the only creative type struggling with a world turned on its head, and my experience is both unique to my situation and not remotely unique at all. ![]()
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