Goodbye again

So the world has a hole in it again, the spot that Neva filled.

As Sheila put it when she called to let me know, she was mowed down on a street in Bakersfield.  She was a generous, funny, smart and sassy woman.  One of the best years of teaching was when she and I team taught...she had a 1/2 combo and I had a 2/3  and we were given free rein to create curriculum.  Mom was Neva's aide that year and I had Patsy as an aide for a Down's Syndrome student and we had a great year teaching whales, bats, frogs and dinosaurs. She gave me socks for Christmas every year and taught me that beer and ice cream make a great float.  The world feels smaller without her in it.