Fall 2020

I hope this letter finds you healthy and, at the most, fighting  boredom though I expect you have had a gamut of other emotions as well.  Disbelief, sadness, concern and confusion just to name a few of the emotions I have been dealing with. 

I have also been struggling with how I can get back to business.  Believe me when I say I have lost more than sleep, as I try to navigate the ever-changing recommendations and restrictions from federal, state, and county health agencies.  

Over the past several weeks I have enjoyed talking with many of you while picking your brain to discover your travel comfort zone.  That is really what it comes down to right now, what each individual is comfortable venturing out to do. 

What I have decided to do is “close shop” for the remainder of 2020 and hope and pray we can come back together with a vengeance in 2021.  Traveling without restrictions and without concerns that we catch, or unwittingly transmit something to someone.  

I sincerely hope you will be willing to join me again after we  turn the page.  Please DON’T forget about me!  Call me.  Email me.  I’d love to meet you for lunch or even ice cream!

In the meantime I look forward to seeing many of you in my  classes.  But until the time we can travel again and I don’t feel the need to take your temperature, ask you to don a mask or hand you a bottle of hand sanitizer, I wish you the sincerest regards and hopes for a brighter 2021. 

Pauline Oldenburg