RattleBag and Rhubarb

The Changed Face of School Leadership

The schools we attend and work in help shape the people we become. Seven of my sixty plus years in…

5 years ago

“Gervase, I’ve Lost a Toy Shop”

Always fun to find half-remembered books. One bonus of this decluttering lark is that you find so many of them.…

5 years ago

Clearing the Clutter

These days find me busy clearing and chucking, sorting and sifting, storing and saving. Three truck loads of stuff cleared…

5 years ago

The Games They Played

A recent visit to Montreal found us at the MAC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal Fortified with coffee and breakfast…

5 years ago

Sports Report and the Spots of Time

It's a late afternoon on a winter Saturday of my childhood. And that means the big Ferguson radio - the…

5 years ago

Escape from the Spirit People

When a re-wired, pack-rat educator takes a deep dive in the basement there's no telling what she will find in…

5 years ago

A Walk and a Heron Fishing

A walk around the lake at Innisfree Garden.

5 years ago

From Minty to Moses – the Extraordinary Fierce and Fearless Harriet Tubman

In September we heard Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Oprah Winfrey at the Apollo in NYC. The topic was his…

5 years ago

Look Up, Look Down, Look Out

Before all the leaves are down take a moment to look up. This is Innisfree Garden last Saturday.  Big Halloween…

5 years ago

The Irish Airman and Time for a Flu Shot

Yeats wrote the poem "The Wild Swans at Coole" (see Game of Swans) in 1916 /17 when he was staying…

5 years ago