And then there were none…

Jobs that is. I have committed to applying for disability retirement though my teaching union. It’s been a long, arduous process of attempting to return to a state of relative normalcy and to continue to do the only thing I was ever sure I wanted—to teach literacy.

My mind and body have not yet returned to balance, and I have to give up my career (in one sense anyway), one I imagined since the second grade. It was a successful run until an insect bite took my physical health in 2018, and students and neglectful employer destroyed my mental health in 2019.

I developed…(see more👇🏼)