In this way, I find similarities between my story and that of Sojourner Truth. Wolff writes that Sojourner Truth “learned, by following her mother everywhere, the basics of how to run a house (Wolff, 2009, p. 72). For Sojourner, it was the very beginning of his education. The methods by which she learned from her mother, and especially observation, shaped her learning style for the rest of her life. In the same way that Sojourner learned household chores from her mother, my older brothers taught me the same skills. I learned by watching and practicing, just like her. Just as household chores became the basis of his education, they became the basis of mine. I learned to look carefully. Although these tasks were not part of my formal education, they taught me something extremely valuable: how