

75% is Enough
Yesterday, I hit a wall. The governor’s announcement about school closures came in the midst of a barely-holding-it-together scenario in which I was desperately trying to concentrate on a work project with a rapidly approaching deadline, while simultaneously untangling the mystery of adverbs for my sixth grader. When my seventh grader innocently asked if I would listen to her read the “quarantine poem” she just wrote, I lost it. On the cusp of tears, I ran to the basement, sl