So many of you write and thank me for my work. And I typically write back and thank you for the thank you. And I’m sincere about it. Your expressed appreciation is what keeps me going. If it weren’t for you taking the time to thank me, I would have no idea if what I’m sending out is opened, viewed, helpful, valued.

My partner, Bryan, seems to have a better sense about it than I do. “What you’re doing is adding value to others’ lives—not just your subscribers but the hundreds of kids each of them will encounter and impact. You need to know that. You need to keep going.” He reminds me often.

I want to share some thank yous, but first I want to formally thank all of you. Not only are you subscribing—which provides compensation for the weekly hours I put into this work—but you continue to find my beliefs and approaches to teaching worthwhile, which is important and meaningful to me since I recently left the classroom. (I retired in May 2023.) I love your emails, ideas, feedback, questions, requests, and mostly your passion and energy for what you are still out there doing. In short, I am, at times, living vicariously through you.

I wish you a continued love for the work you do and a healthy and prosperous 2024!

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