Jo’s Blog

One of the trickiest balances to get in teaching children art is the one between direction and imposition; between mastery and the imagination. I remember dissolving into tears in 3rd grade over a rabbit I could not get to look recognizably like [...]

Probably the only good thing about dying young is that you go out in a blaze of glory, accomplishment and the promise of great things still to happen. Nobody is tired of you yet; you have not become a burden; you have not begun to repeat all [...]

Stories are the cornerstone of all human understanding. We make sense of the world and of new information through stories – how did these same things happen to other people? How did they deal with what we are experiencing right now? What [...]

The history of disability is a history of courage. How could it be otherwise?  People accustomed to living on the margins of society have less to lose than most. They notice more and they are more accustomed to hardship than ordinary people. [...]

With my father and two dear elderly friends dying in the past month, I’m thinking a lot about end-of-life care. Living in India, this report does nothing to reassure me. In a White Paper done by the Economist Intelligence Unit, 80 [...]

This is a story within a story and you need to know both of them to get the whole picture. Let’s start with Gia. I met her while walking with Moy Moy one afternoon. She approached us curiously and started asking questions about why Moy was [...]

After he realized he wasn’t cut out to be a priest (that’s a whole different story, for a very different day), my father decided to open a bookstore. And he tried bravely to make a go of it. But selling things just didn’t seem [...]