Following Alice speaks to everyone whose dreams of teaching school collide with a much different reality. Using the adventures of Lewis Carroll's young Alice in Wonderland as a backdrop, Anne Koch explores the distance between formal training and true teaching. In a series of brief essays she traces the path from confusion to catastrophe to celebration as she learns. The book is a tribute to the skill of dedicated professionals in both parochial and public schools, who model the qualities that make a difference for everyone-the care, challenge, and community building that often are unappreciated but matter more than ever in the strangely disconnected-connected age in which we live.

Finding Home speaks to everyone who appreciates arts and crafts and the role they play making a home. In a series of twenty-six brief essays the author reflects on a range of topics-from rug hooking and macrame to tole painting, letter writing, calligraphy, card making, and porcelain painting. The book is a tribute to the ability of modest excursions into popular crafts to make a difference-by making us aware of the beauty and lessons found as we create in multiple mediums. Lessons not only for the projects we undertake, but for living.