Micro.blog now free for teachers and nurses
I don’t often share personal things about my family here on the blog, but I was reflecting on something last weekend that’s also relevant to Micro.blog. My mom has been in the hospital for a week and a half. I’ve been back and forth to the hospital every day to visit her. More than a few times I would settle in at the hospital cafeteria with my laptop to catch up on work. She is finally out of the hospital, after a roller coaster month of trips to the doctor and the ER.
Nurses always seem to have nearly infinite kindness and patience. It’s one of those jobs that probably seesaws from very rewarding to very difficult. Patients come in and out of your life for an hour or a day or a week, and you do your best within what must sometimes feel like a convoluted system. (My daughter is actually a nurse too, so I’ve had a glimpse of what it’s like.)
For a long time I’ve wanted to do something extra for the people who do so much for their community. Back in 2020, we experimented with offering 6 months of hosting for teachers. There was some interest in it, but the announcement quickly got buried on my website, and even I forgot about it until I started drafting this new post.
