Ellipsis ... "Give Peace a Chance"

I resigned as wrestling coach last week.

Sometimes you just have to admit you can't do it all, even if it means putting in a two-week notice, the first day of practice for the new season.

Tonight, I reveled in my new found freedom and blew off my nightly ritual of grading papers and answering school e-mails so I could "snuggle" with Koah (his words, not mine) and watch Nature for the second night in a row.

I also read "My Side of the Mountain" to my boys tonight -- to enable a brief melting away of the chronic pain of being a teacher.

And since I've been off Facebook for a while, I'll share the other highlight of the week: Kai wrote his first report on John Lennon. It wasn't the prettiest process. We had to grin and bare it through some rough edits, because the last words of that report were to "give peace a chance ... "

Kai insisted on keeping that ellipsis at the end of his essay because, he said, "peace needs a dot, dot, dot."

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Epilogue: I have something in common with John Lennon and his son Sean. We all have the same birthday.