I Cannot Do Basketweaving

But I am good with kids anyway

The homegrown salad I brought from home. Photo credit: Catherine Dunn-Gilbert, author

“What’s wrong with you?” The teacher looked across the table at me as I attempted to finish the craft we were making with the class. “You are the hippy person who looks like they can knit and make stuff out of anything.” She was expecting me to be helpful when we did arts and crafts with one of our classes. Not so.