Once Upon a Time, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Well not Once Upon a Time, but Once Before Covid, and not in a Galaxy Far, Far Away, but in my own personal galaxy, I came up with an idea. I had been working, kind of sort of, on a young adult novel, when I was struck by an idea. I wanted to write a companion book to my book Thinking Positive: Take the Journey into Positivity. Then covid struck and my life was turned upside down. I foolishly thought, as a teacher who was now working from home, that I would have PLENTY of time to write. I was wrong, so, so wrong. I worked more hours than I could ever imagine recreating curriculum, and reaching out to kids trying to help, begging them to do work and just making sure they were okay. Summer brought more of the same. Things changed a little bit in the fall. We were still remote, but it was more structured, and I found that I did have more time, but something had happened. It was a not good something. I started listening to the voices in my head. You know those voices, the ones that tell you your too fat, or stupid,…