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A post on working with little kids in the time of COVID

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What day is it of this mess does it feel like to you? It generally feels like day 493 for me. When people ask me how I am, I joke (sort of) that I range from hanging in there (at my best) to my hair is on fire. I've drafted this post a couple of times and then have run into a dead end because I've wanted to have a positive "we can do it!" message, and most days, the truth is, I feel like I'm juggling a lot of things and catching some balls I drop on toes, elbows, and knees. I'm doing it, but it isn't super pretty or very coordinated. We each have very different personal, emotional, and mental challenges in dealing with our new normal. Some live alone and are dealing with how to mark the moments in time from a day alone; a lot of my team lives in small NYC apartments and are figuring out how to navigate a small space with their significant others, especially in a world where video calls are the new normal; others are trying to relearn geometry to ho