Paul Keefer

“You’re always so happy,” a student told me as he walked into class last year and I greeted him at the door. That student would also be nicknamed “honey bun” for once eating three honeybuns for breakfast. But what he and others noticed is something I had worked on intentionally throughout my career as a teacher, which is being more emotionally consistent. It is enough that many of these students have to deal with their own parents and friends who may be all over the place emo

Once during class, my high school social studies teacher gave a monologue about the midweek boredom that many people experience. He theorized that Tuesday is the worst day of the week. No one would choose Friday or the other two weekend days to be the worst. Obviously. That leaves Monday through Thursday, and from there it’s a simple process of elimination. Wednesday is the hump day and marks the perseverance to the middle of the week, and by Thursday you are almost to the we