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Welcome to The Breakroom, Caroline Center's official blog site. We invite you to have a cup of coffee with us and to discover what it takes for women to create better lives through an SSND-inspired education and meaningful work. In The Breakroom, you will find everything about women and work except the gossip. Come to The Breakroom to hear personal stories, to get the facts, to understand the challenges and struggles, to be inspired and enlightened – and, hopefully, to connect with your neighbors in the city and with a small, but very special and powerful place on Somerset Street, Caroline Center -  a place that we believe will change your life for good.
Note: All posts in The Breakroom are the property of Caroline Center and should not be re-published in any format without expressed permission from Caroline Center and proper attribution. Posts in The Breakroom from 2014 through 2019, unless otherwise noted, were written by Nancy Sherman, who served in the role of communications and marketing director for Caroline Center during this time. Posts in The Breakroom from 2012 through 2013, unless otherwise noted, were written by freelance writer/director Claire Hartman, who created this blog site.Â
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The cover of Alexandra Hurwitz’s book, On Looking: A Walker’s Guide to the Art of Observation, could have been the only book on the shelf at the New York Public Library Store. It had me from the beginning.
The forgotten virtue of reverence, as classicist and writer Professor Paul Woodruff suggests, may very well be the mother of all virtues – the virtue that makes all of the other virtues possible.
The forecast is for blustery and unseasonably warm days ahead –especially if we don’t learn how to weather the winds of change and to keep our cool in the midst of inevitable partisanship.
You are the Angel on every corner
the last choir
life’s deliverer and death’s powdery hand
You are the Man in the Mirror
the jittery birds calling on the fence
You are the breeze that blows in every season
catching up what’s left...
All too often, we feel that we are not living the fullness of our lives because we are not expressing the fullness of our gifts. Elle Luna
You can’t get around it.
You can’t talk around it. You can’t write around it. And, you certainly can’t walk around it. In fact, on any given day, on any given street in Baltimore, you may run right smack into it.
I’ve been thinking recently about how it’s going to feel turning 20 this year, especially now and in Baltimore – a city standing at a crossroad with some big decisions to make after an unsettling spring. And, I’m also wondering what it’s going to be like on the West Side after having really come of age in the heart of East Baltimore.
First of all, we go where the jobs are.
We’re Caroline Center. Committed to women. Committed to work.Â
From “What It Takes“
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It’s summer. And the women in Caroline Center’s sixty-first class of career trainees are working hard, and with new-found confidence and hope, in preparation for their professional and clinical internships and the next important steps in their life’s journeys.