When I’m watching a slide presentation, no matter how distracted I am, there is one phrase that will always snap me to attention: “You probably can’t read this, but…” I put this in a category with such phrases as, “This…
Despite having an education and career that are strongly rooted in science, art has been a consistent thread in my life. I can’t remember an era when I wasn’t creating something…finger painting in preschool, cross-stitching in grade school, picking up…
My younger son, a kindergartener, recently had an assignment where he had to write one sentence about what he wanted to be when he grew up. “A construction worker,” he told me. And then, after a pause, “Would I have…