Bill Gauthier's Blog

Hello, friends. Spring vacation is over and now the last 2+ months of school remain. There’ll be holidays and such, but there’ll be other things that are exclusive to teaching in the 21st century that are not as fun. Either way, writing full-time won’t resume again until the end of June (except for weekends) which […]

Hello, friends. Spring vacation has sprung and I, apparently, am going to use clichés now. Perhaps it’s because Rome wasn’t built with a cliché, but I’m not thrilled by it. It’s the opening I have, though, and—like many of my students approach their work—I don’t feel like revising it, so you’re stuck with it. I’m […]

Hello, friends. I got through last week only mildly skinned and singed. Meetings and meetings that were like puppet shows and lots of trying to catch up on stuff. This week will also be busier than I’d like, with a work-related day trip on Tuesday and then an after school meeting on Wednesday (that’s really […]

Hello, friends. This past week was a nice short one thanks to Good Friday and having to take my 13-year-old for a medical appointment an hour or so away. This coming week…brrrr. The Day Job will be trying, I’m sure. Meetings and what I suspect will be annoying things coming from all angles. But the […]

Hello, friends. This week was somewhat trying at the Day Job. Not entirely surprising if you’ve read these weekly updates but it still gets under the skin. I spent a few days with headaches from clenching my jaw and suspect there’ll be more of that in the coming week or so. On the bright side, […]

Hello, friends. We had a super busy week this past one as G had her school drama club show on Friday and Saturday, which meant Tech Week for her, staying at school until 5:30 every day. The shows went well and she had fun, which is what counts. For me, I didn’t get to write […]

Hello, friends. Have you ever noticed that when you’re having a string of bad nights with strange dreams and hard-fought sleep, others you know are also experiencing the same issues? Is it because whatever’s affecting you is affecting them? This week was one of those weeks. I had three or four nights of weird dreams […]

Hello, friends. After the surprise second week of vacation brought on by the Blizzard of ’26, this week came back with a vengeance and, man, did things suck! This week’s essay talks a tiny bit about it because I spent a lot of the week thinking, I’ve had enough. I can’t do this. What was […]

Hello, friends. I was really, really sad about the end of the mid-winter/February vacation last week. And then the Blizzard of ’26 came. It shut down things for another week. Two weeks off to work on writing and all the rest. It. Was. Glorious. I know when I go back on Monday, I’ll be asked […]

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