Tag: Learning

How I Learned to Love Photography and Art Museums with a Visual Processing Disorder: From Disability to Ability to Delight

December 1, 2025

I used to think I just wasn’t a visual arts person. This limiting belief was scientifically proven, I insisted, when I was diagnosed with a disorder of visual processing. Brains, of course, are plastic. Whatever my brain’s true visual limitations, I surely haven’t reached them. So I got back into the visual during the pandemic, … More How I Learned to Love Photography and Art Museums with a Visual Processing Disorder: From Disability to Ability to Delight

To create, imitate

December 5, 2020

Some of my most memorable, and thus powerful, learning experiences in languages and humanities have come from imitation. In a college literature class on the English Metaphysical Poets, I had the opportunity to write a poem imitating John Donne’s “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” and reflect on my process, defending how it was an imitation, instead … More To create, imitate