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Safe and Sound

It's been a busy several months! Let me see if I can sum-up... Our second COVID test came back negative, so we moved back to Picasso in late August. Classes at The UWI Cave Hill began in September, so I was right on time. My classes were/have been 100% online, and that was challenging, since I really like to drag students into the field. Hopefully next term I'll be able to do that. Still, teaching online wasn't that bad for me, as I have prior experience doing so: I pioneered the Geography department's online program at University of Colorado Denver when I was there, and helped create an online master's degree program while I was at ASU. I also worked for Western Governor's University, which is a fully online university. So I am familiar with online pedagogy. Things went well the first semester, even amidst COVID-era restrictions: we explored, we played in the ocean a lot, we set-up our house, we went to the movies (when that was not happening anywhere else in t