Everyone Needs Sabbaticals
Spring 2023 was an unbelievably difficult trimester. I fell ill; I couldn’t keep up with the day-to-day demands of teaching; I had the most pervasive brain fog I’ve ever had and couldn’t see a way through the difficulties I was facing because of it. Gracious colleagues made it possible for me to crawl to the end of the term, but it was not a good term for me or for my students. I have never been so relieved to finish…