It's (usually) not until they go through the training that they get interested in something specific. They'll find their own niche, and that's where they'll go. It might be edible and medicinal plants or it might be birds. ... It's up to them.

She was in the very first group of docents.

There are some people in this world who can emotionally disconnect like a light switch. It’s like a mental defense mechanism.

I grew up in Florida, which is the land of flea markets and swap meets. My grandmother loved to go these places, and she'd take me along.

I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

You find a lot of junk when you're searching through lost and tossed photo ephemera, but every so often you'll find a gem, a wallet-sized masterpiece you're certain could hang on the wall of a gallery if only someone with a name had taken it. Find one or two of those and you're hooked for life.