When all else fails: chicken and dumplings

In the middle of preparing lectures and spelling out writing lessons and elucidating grammar lessons and working on the History of the Renaissance World…the rest of life revolves on.

Revolves, turns, rotates…it's hard to find a word that carries the exact shade of meaning, the one that implies exactly the right sort of forward movement, taking the same exact struggles to a different place, in which they're neither the same nor different, but both distinct from the previous struggle, and...