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Spreader Week 5 - A Mask

*This is a weekly serial blog, it will make way more sense if you start on www.kylamcdonald.com/post/spreader-week-1-the-escape 5 whole...

The Writing Process

Have you ever had a character live in your head? I was shocked when I first learned that everyone didn’t have other worlds, characters...

Spreader Week 4 - Lies

*This is a weekly serial blog, it will make way more sense if you start on www.kylamcdonald.com/post/spreader-week-1-the-escape* The...

Spreader Week 3 - Tiger

*This is a weekly serial blog, it will make way more sense if you start on www.kylamcdonald.com/post/spreader-week-1-the-escape * Parker...

Spreader Week 2 - A New Plan

*This is a weekly serial blog, it will make way more sense if you start on Week 1 The Escape* As the overpass loomed above them Parker...

Spreader - The Escape

(Wait! Don't Go! My blog is undergoing a bit of a shift. After a year and a half of writing about day to day life, I'm going back to what...

Blaming and Shaming

We’re almost at the last quarter of 2020 and I don’t think any of us will be sorry to see it go. Everyone is tired of hearing about...

Growing a Reader

I just finished reading a book called The Library Book by Susan Orleans, it was delightful and that’s not a word I use lightly. It was a...

The Magic of Cookies

Time is in short supply right now. There are a lot of different hands pulling at the small shreds of time that I have available....

Because you are worth it

My blog this week is not so much a blog as a love letter to everyone working in education. I know it isn’t a bottle of wine or a basket...

Major Adjustments

If you have ever visited a chiropractor or physiotherapist, you probably know a little about getting adjusted. Sometimes, it’s really...

Getting Older

This week, I’m not going to write about education and the pandemic. I know It’s the topic of the day. In much of my world, it is all...

Planning in the Time of Covid

When I said last week that there was nothing to be gained by worrying, I meant it. The rational and logical parts of my brain stand...

Worth Worrying

It’s easy to think that going back to school within this pandemic is something worth worrying about. It’s harder to pinpoint exactly what...

Please Do The Impossible

Let’s productively discuss the impossible. I know that sounds a bit like an oxymoron, but if there was ever a time for thinking outside...

All About Family

Sometimes thinking about family feels a little like thinking about the Grand Canyon, it’s almost too big and vast and deep to comprehend....

Sleep Deprivation is Torture

Not sleeping makes it hard to enjoy just about anything. It makes it hard to carry on a conversation and it definitely makes it hard to...

Too Complicated

There are lots of crazy things about being human. I really think that we are the most bizarre of all the animals in the world. I mean,...

Shut Up and Listen

It’s Monday and usually I would have a whole 24 more hours before I would start to feel panicked because my blog has four beginnings, but...

Making Space

After spending the morning decluttering my classroom, I think I can safely say that my class is now less cluttered than my mind. I need...

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