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Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Yule Blog Prompt #11: What I Learned in 2021 3. New Year's Resolutions for 2022: The HONOR Code 4. Links to Others: My Eleventh Resolution 5. Calendar Reform: 11-Day Calendars 6. Cheng's  Art of Logic in an Illogical World , Chapter 10 7. Conclusion Introduction Today is New Year's Day 2022. When 2021 began, many people thought of 2020 as an annus horribilis , a Murphy's year in which anything that could go wrong did go wrong. Of course, this was mainly due to the ongoing pandemic. But this was all based on the assumption that the pandemic would end in 2021, so that labeling 2020 as the Murphy's year would distinguish it from 2021. But the pandemic didn't end in 2021, and now many consider 2021 to be a Murphy's year too. Case in point, when legendary actress Betty White died yesterday, many people tweeted that it was just one last bad thing that had to happen in 2021. That being said, why should we believe 2022, the third...

Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Yule Blog Prompt #10: A Look Back at My Professional Growth from 2021 3. Links to Other Challenge Participants 4. Calendar Reform: 9-Day Calendars 5. Cheng's  Art of Logic in an Illogical World , Chapter 9 6. Conclusion Introduction Today is New Year's Adam -- the day before New Year's Eve. I often use the word "Adam" (the day before an Eve) when a Sunday holiday is celebrated at a school on a Friday. (For example, this year we had Pi Day Adam on Friday, March 12th and Halloween Adam on Friday, October 29th.) Also, yesterday I received my booster shot for the Moderna vaccine. It was exactly seven months after I got my second shot of Moderna. Yule Blog Prompt #10: A Look Back at My Professional Growth from 2021 How much have I grown as a teacher this year? Well, the answer is that I've grown plenty -- after all, I began 2021 having had only one year of experience as a teacher (and I didn't even complete that one year), a...