Joking with Jane — and my daughter!

Greetings, friends! Happy 2022!

I’m sorry I disappeared from Austen Variations (and from the Internet more generally) these past few months. In late July, I was asked, unexpectedly, to teach high school English. What an adventure! Though I often feel as if I don’t know what I’m doing, I’ve had a great experience so far.

There has been one downside to teaching: I’ve done very little writing. (Boo!) However, I have made time to hang out with my funny, curious, and mischievous eleven-year-old daugh...