Katherine Lee Bates

Sometimes I find it necessary to go into the vault of the past 300+ posts to find inspiration. Also, since my aneurism 3 years ago, my brain isn’t the same….and is easily overwhelmed. Sometimes it’s okay to take a break.

Katharine Lee Bates, a professor of English at Wellesley College, had a chestnut-eyed collie named Hamlet and a green parrot named Polonius. She taught Shakespeare, and she wrote poetry. She loved to travel. The Civil War broke out when Katie