I w oke in a panic today. Why didn’t my alarm go off at the crack of dawn? Where is my bookbag? Isn’t my new school outfit laid out? It’s the first day of school, and I’m not prepared?

I have planned and schemed for the first day of school for 57 years, and today I forgot to go. Yes, 57 first days of school, and all the planning it involves, has come to an end.I attended school for 16 straight years, and then was an educator for the next 41. Each year, I was like a schoolgirl, planning every move to make that first day to set the tone for the rest of the year. In the blink of an eye, a r