Ms. Bork

So, there's been an unusually long hiatus in my blogging life stemming from an even more significant change in my real life:

I am a teacher.

Sadly, I am no longer living in Washington, DC. Instead I have relocated to South Bend, INDIANA (Yes, Indiana) and am teaching even further in the wilderness at a tiny borading school called La Lumiere. Check it out here: www.lalumiere.org

I've been so innundated with drastic change and desperately overcome with emotion (and also lacking internet) that I haven't been able to write about any of this until now. And even now, I'm not sure how to put words to the changes I have experenced.  Are there words to name the heartache that I felt leaving DC? No. I can only tell you that for weeks before my move I wandered around in a cloud of gloom and that the act of leaving opened the floodgates for an ocean of tears. Leaving DC meant leaving behind my best friends from highschool and college, my adopted family of Ev , Jon and Noah (and Zelia!) and my home. The place where I finally wanted to bury my roots and flourish. Yet, I had to go. The call came to be a teacher and I answered it. How could I possibly regret that?

At home in DC I was Rachael, Rach, Rachie Bork, Little r, Biggie & Batgirl. I was a student, a Big, a friend, a parental stand-in, a lifeline.

I will always always be those things.

But here, I am Ms. Bork.

And I have to go grade papers.