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Hello, friends! Summer vacation is done. The 2025-2026 school year officially begins on Monday. I’m terrified and excited. Summer vacations always go quickly but this one extra so. I’m kinda in mourning. I spent Wednesday and Thursday at professional development days and several hours on Friday at school setting the classroom of me and a…

Hello, friends! Summer vacation is winding down. This coming week I’ll have two professional development days and who knows how much extra time I’ll be there setting up a new space, co-writing a new curriculum, and generally preparing for next week, when vacation is officially over. This week also marks my last week of being…

Hello, friends! Another week in the history books or whatever passes for them in the year 2025, when lies are truth, truth is fake, and history is negotiable, not written by the winners so much as argued by anyone with an internet connection. I have one real week left of summer vacation and even that…

Hello, friends! This was the first week all summer where I didn’t have many obligations. I wrote and drew and was my true(ish) creative self. It was terrific. It should’ve led me to writing a deep, entertaining essay for my weekly newsletter. Alas, the essay became a shitshow. I was going to write about how…

Hello, friends! This week was an emotional crazyhouse. Tuesday, I finished the stuff at my father’s old apartment, which I write about in this week’s essay. On Thursday, I had a curriculum meeting where I ended up losing my cool and going on an emotional diatribe that I’m told was “amazing” and showed how “brave”…

Hello, friends! This past week I was at Dad’s old place twice. I moved some stuff out on Friday. Pamela and I have some fragile things to pack and move on Monday, and then I’m hoping that Tuesday will bring the end to the saga of Dad’s Big Move. Just in time for work-related stuff.…

Hello, friends! This past week I dealt with more of the Big Move, which is now the Big Cleaning Project. Going through the things that were left in the apartment, finding the important things that will go to the new place and making sure the rest is ready to be removed. We found a place…

Hello, friends! It happened. The Big Move. My father is now in his new apartment with only a few complaints (mainly about the things I threw away or didn’t bring). He seems happy with it and I hope he hasn’t gotten sick of us yet. I’ll be going to the old place to go through…

Hello, friends! Another busy week. The first few days were hot and laying low was the order of business but the rest of the week was spent helping Dad pack and go through things in the mornings and then dealing with whatever–including crashing–in the afternoons. Writing happened late afternoon or at night when there wasn’t…

Hello, friends! It’s been a wild week. School ended on Monday and I’ve been pretty busy since. Nothing compared to how busy I’ll be the coming weeks. I’ve written about it in today’s essay. Welcome to the 127th installment of Gauthic Times, the newsletter about my writing, my life, and some thoughts about the coming…