The Moment of Lift

The Moment of Lift

by | Apr 29, 2019 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading | 6 comments

One day, spring semester 1981 in my American Humanities class at Ursuline Academy of Dallas, we viewed a slide of Mary Cassatt’s Mother and Child. As a young and somewhat pretentious teacher, I pronounced Cassatt’s last name in French—apologies to my students. Also,...