Back when I was still teaching, we talked a lot about helping kids to become lifelong learners. Our students graduated from high school and headed out into a world in which it was increasingly difficult to know things, because ‘things’ were always changing. They would undoubtedly learn how to do one job, only to find …
Everyone, meet Gladys. We brought her home a couple of weeks ago. And I’ve just finished dressing her in her beads and bobbles. She looks lovely, I think. Not too ostentatious or overdone. With a few slightly vintage accessories, and a few that are really old. She’s kind of classic. And authentic… I mean she …
I’ve often wondered what it would be like to sit down for tea with some of the women whom I’ve long admired. Whose words and ideas have sustained me at difficult times in my life. And to whom I have often looked for wisdom, for some sort of guidance on how to navigate through life. …
What’s the oldest thing in your closet? Are you still wearing it? I’m looking at a jacket I bought in 1985 and considering how to wear it now.
Up until the last few years you could definitely describe me as a non-hugger. When I was a department head and mentoring younger members of my department, I’d pass tearful colleagues who needed a hug over to Julie, the lovely lady who sat next to me in the teacher prep room. She was always a …
I’m a big believer in a curated closet. But I think I may have over-curated mine. And that it might be time to go shopping.
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