At the Q & A session during our visit to St. Anne Catholic School last month a first-grader wanted to know, “How do you cook if you’re blind?” People who are blind can cook, and lots of them are very good at it. “I’m just not one of them,” I said with a shrug.  A […]

Here’s an understatement: I learn a lot about history by listening to the essays the writers in my memoir groups read out loud every week in class. Last week I asked them to write about a meaningful object they’d lost, broken, or destroyed, and then explain why that object had been so meaningful to them. […]