Last weekend, squeezed in somehow between camping trip preparation meetings, Spring Sing, and the last coffee house of the year, I managed to grab a few hours, a Suburban, and seven eager sophomores for a quick trip to Los Angeles to take in some culture. Our destination: my friend, Thacher classmate, and advisee’s father Johannes […]
As the days get shorter and the nights become chillier, I realize that it is coming to the end of the fall trimester. For the whole school, the end of a trimester means the end of their old sport, and the start of their new one. For my fall sport, I did dance. I had […]
You never know where you’ll run into Thacher students. I attended the 5th annual Ojai Youthfest at Libbey Park with my daughters, Annika and Christina, this past Sunday. After the girls competed in the 4th grade health and nutrition trivia contest and while they were waiting for their turn on the trampoline, I wandered around to […]
The power of imagination appeared evident this Sunday, as the cast and crew gathered to strike the set of the fall production, Six Degrees of Separation. How disheartening it seemed that so much work could go into this creation, only to be taken apart in a few hours. And so it appeared that once the […]
Recently, we had Big Gymkhana weekend. Being with Little Jo was fantastic and I am going to miss her so much. At the beginning of the year, I thought I could have practically picked out the gymkhana winners, but you never know until the season starts. There were people who hadn’t ridden before Thacher that […]
It’s a constant challenge to keep up at Thacher, and students often complain of lack of ‘free time.’ I was recently gifted a free Wednesday afternoon, I had little homework, no games to attend, and I didn’t have to ride. With a few free hours, what in the world was I to do with myself? Everyone […]
This past weekend I headed down to LA to visit LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and the LA Farmer’s Market for a cultural weekend trip. We wandered around the museum with Mr. Robinson (who teaches AP Art History at Thacher) acting as our personal docent and showing us the works of Rembrandt, early […]