May is not my favorite month. This might be a side effect of my day job (teaching middle school), but this month is always a struggle. I'm tired, overwhelmed, and fighting apathy (my own as well as my students').
In fact, I usually feel like my tail's on fire and the radio's broken, so I'm just screaming out the window:
Mayday! Mayday!
It's called
May, right?
May which means that are allowed to do something, but don't have to. As in "you
may proceed" or "you
may discard two cards." Or it has to do with permission: "come what
may" or "mother
may I?"
Try as I
may, I can't summon a devil-
may-care attitude about this. So, I declare the the entire month should be optional. What do you say?
May I be excused?
Published on May 17, 2017 03:00