After An Educator's Journey

Out of the classroom & into the universe

Once upon a time, I taught 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders. Now I’m retired and working on new ventures.

I taught second, third and fourth graders. Teaching was my passion and joy for 30 years. And it didn’t hurt that they called me “mom” sometimes.

Tag: women

Moving Forward

January 21, 2025

This week I happened on a NYTime story about an amateur photographer in Paris. Raoul Minot, was an employee of Le Printemps in Paris, and an amateur whose resistance to Nazi Occupation of France took the form of documenting 1940s Paris. M. Minot made thousands of photographs, often adding commentary or explanation, knowing that making…
Connections

May 31, 2012

Today would have been my paternal grandmother’s 129th birthday; she was born in High Falls, New York on May 31, 1883. I do not know much about my grandmother; she died in 1927 when my father was just 9 years old. Yet I sometimes feel a connection. In addition to carrying my grandmother’s name, Elizabeth,…