Art, art, art. Reading, reading, reading. Playing outside, playing playing playing outside. Imagining. Playing. Pretending. Adventure. Dreaming. A childhood rich in freedom and pretend.
Best teacher: Doris Nesbitt, grade 5, Longmeadow Mass.
Mom painted with oils and played the piano. Dad was a cartoonist and played the guitar. Both were musical. My aunt was an opera singer, my grandmother a published writer and organist, and so on. My daughters are both in music and theatre.
I taught elementary grades and found out that kids and art are as natural as sunshine and rai more...