“Is this place haunted?” my colleague asks. Five of us from the Chemical Heritage Foundation are seated in the surgical amphitheater at the historic Pennsylvania Hospital. The hospital’s archivist is leaning on the non-historic operating table, awash in the sunlight that made nineteenth century surgical operations possible. She pauses, considering my colleague’s question, and cocksContinue reading “Standing in squares of sunshine”
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Because You’re Young
When I first started working as the marketing and communications person at this Quaker elementary school (which has the good sense to still teach cursive handwriting), I was happy to be putting to good use almost a decade of skills in writing, research, social media, advertising and graphic design. At twenty-six, I felt like I’dContinue reading “Because You’re Young”
Grey Sea & Sky 