Gifted Adults in Their 40s and 50s - Environmental, Familial, and Personal Factors I re-edited this post when I discovered I had indeed finished it. It became a full chapter in Morality, Ethics, and Gifted Minds, edited by Don Ambrose and Tracy Cross, by Springer READ MORE
Is a Gifted Woman’s Experience Different From a Man’s?
... and how do the realities of the zeitgeist -- the conditions around her at the time -- impact the answer? First of all, this is part of my story and I’ve shared it several times since 2010 and added edits here and there. I’m from the Baby Boomer generation. I was in READ MORE
An Interview with Dr. Deborah Ruf
Hows and Whys about the Five Levels of Gifted In a chilly Minneapolis, Minnesota, in November 2018, I hosted — and shuttled to sessions at our convention center less than 15 minutes from my home — the brilliant, wonderful, multi-faceted Femke Hovinga-Tiller, and her equally READ MORE
Gifted People Are Still People
... and many of our feelings are shared by others. Anyone old enough to remember watching Cheers in 1982—and you can still watch it in reruns—will remember when Nicholas Colasanto, who played Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso on the first couple years of the series “Cheers,” said some READ MORE
The Relativity of Giftedness
When I think of giftedness, I sometimes think about why we want to know about it and how it affects people. To start with, I see high intelligence and giftedness as being about how some people are. Whereas different identification processes are often helpful when trying to READ MORE