Monthly Archives: November 2016

I spent yesterday morning volunteering at Building Skills Partnership, an organization that offers ESL, computer and citizenship classes to  – you guessed it – “build skills” among low-wage workers.  I was paired with two men who were studying for their US citizenship test – one has it coming up next week, the other is waiting […]

  Oy.  I don’t even know where to start with this.  I walked around yesterday in a fog, and the best word I could come up with to describe my condition was “shell-shocked.”  I felt stunned and numb, too numb to cry or feel anger or sadness.  I half-joked w/ coworkers about the stages of […]