In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.

Life is a big collaboration - and when you're tackling something that is painful and troubling and is causing you such desperate grief that you think life's not worth living - you need to reach out. To people who will reach back.

If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.

Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me.

I learned from teaching. If you are perceived by the student to be belittling them or purely criticizing them without offering up words of encouragement and support, they shut down and discredit you.

I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.

I would say this to my students all the time, it's about 30% you as the teacher and 70% about them. They tend to think that their role is to be the baby bird in a nest and you're going to feed them? They're going to feed themselves, or they're going to starve.