A Week Inside: Closed Schools, Shelter-in-Place, New Friends, and Family Time

This year, my two teaching jobs were supposed to take me through June 11. The long-commute to Daly City, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, after dropping Rebelle Harmony off at preschool (now closed) was a time for coffee-sipping and podcasts in the morning, and a time for phone calls with friends on the commute back home. That school year was scheduled to end in mid-May. My four-nights-a-week job in Berkeley was scheduled to run through June 11. All of a sudden the school year is likely over. Distance-learning attempts are being…