When I stepped into the elevator last fall, I wondered if this padding was a sign of things to come! It is absolutely delightful to have some time to catch up. Catch up on life! A new semester begins this week and I am extremely thankful it is a light one for me. The fall was too heavily focused on "work," and there was little or no time for me to write, photograph, and enjoy my family. Last night I set about putting last semesters photos from my classes into Shutterfly so I could share them with my fall students - and it brought some closure to the courses, and relationships I built with my students. In the fall I taught 2 sections of an Introduction to Education course, and 1 of Inclusion for the General Education Teacher. When I walk into my collegiate classroom for the first time, this is typically what I see: And then it quickly becomes this: Of course, I do not teach in a lecture format, and this course is an exploratory of the teaching field, and