Notes to Self -- 2025

    Hi reader(s), In this "back to school" edition of Notes to Self 2023, I reflect at the end of Summer Vacation on the State of the Self. Just underwent a necessary and probably more useful than I even know week of training in how to handle first aid and CPR emergencies, doing a live drill of lock-down, countering and evacuating in an imaginary (yet frightening) live shooter drill, review the legal responsibilities of the mandated reporting of child abuse as well as scenarios of bullying and harassment, writing injury reports to families, and learning how to take pictures and communicate in weekly reports, solving problems and puzzles with teams of new co-workers, singing karaoke and having that singing recorded and played back on a big screen, taking part in an all school promotional video where teams of us followed he school mascot, in costume, down the street onto the front steps and cheered as the theme from "Rocky" played in the background, taking part in a ...