My 4-year-old daughter recently tried to use a colander for a puke bowl.
When I recommended that she get a metal bowl and lie down on the couch to settle her tummy, that’s all she could find. Somehow, I feel like this is an odd sort of analogy for nearly every parent and their emotions about education right now. Everything is off, you feel rather ill and the only solutions seem to have a lot of unhelpful holes in them and may be a disaster in the making.
At least, that’s how it feels.
There are many amazing saints named Catherine recognized by the Catholic Church; but I am not named after any of them. I was named after one of my mother’s aunts, and my spelling of Kathryn is more typical among Protestants than it is among Catholics. Spelling variations aside though, it is still inspiring to look at some of the amazing women throughout history whose name I share.