Week #1 of the new school year is officially in the books. Thanks to the long Labor Day weekend, the kids only went to school for four days this week, and it’ll be another four-day week next week, too. This is probably a good thing because our first four days weren’t pretty. Here…
Tag: middle school
What I Learned in Middle School at 42
Flashback to fall, 1984: Benetton sweaters, braces, big hair and even bigger EG socks. I was twelve and in the seventh grade. It was my first year of junior high (we didn’t call it middle school). All the usual pre-teen insecurities and anxieties were multiplied because my school was actually a junior/senior high school, with grades 7-12 together…