Teaching, or at least teaching well, is a challenging enterprise. It requires developing skills and repertoires that may not have been taught in college or MLIS courses. For librarians of a certain age, it requires learning to meet continuously shifting new cohorts of students "where they" are, and using techniques and technologies and pedagogies that didn't exist when they were young. One way to get jogged out of old, hard to break habits of being the "sage on the stage" doing the same old lecture/demo about using databases, or proper citation formats, is to be sent away from campus to work from home (WFH) while a global pandemic rages. This session will review the confluence of events that finally freed one librarian from entrenchment in tired and uninspired instructional approaches. Working from home, using technologies to allow connection for students studying from home, considering the choices between synchronous and asynchronous delivery, applying principles of backward design to planning effective and assessible instruction, and receiving guidance to adopt and apply a new instruction assessment rubric: these all came together with a powerful synergistic effect. The surface has been scratched, and it is hoped that the potential within can long outlast the unusual conditions imposed on us by COVID-19!