I've become an expert at classroom window shopping. What I mean is this -- I waltz by classrooms, awkwardly peek through the window for an outfit that catches my eye and skip away when some wary student...

Normality is blinding. This morning, I ate my same Panera blueberry bagel as I slung my bag - the same one since ninth grade - over my shoulder. I walked the same hallways and skipped down the same...