School Days, Summer Days, All In a Daze

Both of my kids love school. They didn’t get that from me. I enjoyed the camaraderie and relationships, and developed new interests when I made new friends. But a year of tumultuous bullying beat that passion out of me. My grades plummeted and only started to level out after we moved from New Jersey to Long Island and I came out of my haze, like a turtle whose shell got whacked with a stick.