Our family is up here at the orange grove having a special weekend together since Luna starts kindergarten in a little over a week and Nico will soon start pre-school. That may not seem like a big deal – and in the bigger scheme of things it isn’t – but I know from experience with…

I am sitting with Riley. We are doing our ten-minute quick write.  Let me see. What do I have to say today? Hmmm. Well, I just had a new student come before Riley to work on college essays.  He’s the brother of one of my students who is now at UCLA. I get a lot…