Debbie Herman

Sep 3, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Debbie Herman |Lauren Eldridge |Christina Soontornvat

To see or not to see. Carla’s thrilled that Vision Screening Day’s approaching. She hopes she’ll need glasses because no one else in class wears them. Her friend Buster scoffs, “You like to be different.” Next day, Carla’s wearing self-made purple pipe-cleaner frames. She tells Buster she wants to see what styles and colors will flatter her when she gets real glasses. Every day thereafter, Carla sports different frames she’s designed and constructed.

Oct 2, 2023 | ctmirror.org | Debbie Herman

We have a new college in Connecticut, formed by the merger of our state’s 12 community colleges into one college known as Connecticut State Community College. Unfortunately, the precarious and impecunious state of the new Connecticut State Community College does not bear celebration. There is plenty of blame to go around for the state of things — the new college and CSCU’s senior leadership, Gov. Ned Lamont, the General Assembly, or a combination of the three.