I haven’t been able to write since the shooting. If we’re decent human beings, these events knock our souls around. If we’re decent human beings with children of our own or close to other people’s children, there’s a devastating anxiety and extra heartbreak. For those of us who are teachers or any person who works in a school or classroom of any kind, there’s something else about it for which I have no words. Which I guess is why I haven’t been able to write. Twenty-three yea