# My Red Sneakers

My Red Sneakers is a collection of reflective essays on identity, courage, art, memory, and meaning after illusion, ambition, and certainty fall away. I don’t write as an expert or guide, but as a traveler who has paid attention.

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## [The Girl and the Baton](https://myredsneakers.substack.com/p/the-girl-and-the-baton)

_2026-07-06 · Linda Spencer_

Under the stars in Bordeaux, a conductor handed a little girl her baton. What happened next is something I will never forget.

## [Still Dancing in the Living Room](https://myredsneakers.substack.com/p/still-dancing-in-the-living-room)

_2026-06-29 · Linda Spencer_

Ella Fitzgerald almost danced at the Apollo and then sang instead and made history. My aunt's song to me as a kid taught me why that leap matters.

## [A Love Letter to a Country That Isn’t Mine](https://myredsneakers.substack.com/p/a-love-letter-to-a-country-that-isnt)

_2026-06-22 · Linda Spencer_

On Greece: a borrowed culture, an honorary etera, magpies that mate for life, and standing humbled in the shadow of everything it gave the world.

## [Camille Claudel, Rodin's Muse, Vanished for Thirty Years](https://myredsneakers.substack.com/p/camille-claudel-rodins-muse-vanished)

_2026-06-15 · Linda Spencer_

Camille Claudel didn't lose her mind—she lost her name. Auguste Rodin's muse, erased for 30 years as an "inconvenience."

## [Sobremesa: The Art of Not Leaving](https://myredsneakers.substack.com/p/sobremesa-the-art-of-not-leaving)

_2026-06-08 · Linda Spencer_

That night, nobody wanted to go home. Here's why sobremesa, the Spanish art of lingering after a meal, might be exactly what many are missing.

## [Two Blue Lines and a Yellow Streak](https://myredsneakers.substack.com/p/two-blue-lines-and-a-yellow-streak)

_2026-06-01 · Linda Spencer_

Punished for sloppy handwriting. Silenced by a D in art. Decades later, a tiny canvas and two blue lines changed a person's perspective about what was possible.

## [Diamonds, Volcanoes, and the Art of Survival](https://myredsneakers.substack.com/p/diamonds-volcanoes-and-the-art-of)

_2026-05-25 · Linda Spencer_

She fled revolutions, painted power, and wore her escape on her wrists. Tamara de Lempicka survived everything, including being forgotten.

## [The Art We Lose](https://myredsneakers.substack.com/p/the-art-we-lose)

_2026-05-18 · Linda Spencer_

Picasso's genius is preserved forever. So why does a little girl walk through a museum and sense, even before she can say it, that something is missing?

## [Whose Art Gets on the Walls](https://myredsneakers.substack.com/p/whose-art-gets-on-the-walls)

_2026-05-11 · Linda Spencer_

A light show in Provence, a genius in an asylum, a young woman who signs her name in the back of the canvas. The question is: whose art gets on the walls?

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_2026-05-11 · **Sponsored**_

Personal posts on agentic coding, moshcode CLI, and security findings.

## [The Professor Who Gave Me the Romantics](https://myredsneakers.substack.com/p/the-professor-who-gave-me-the-romantics)

_2026-05-04 · Linda Spencer_

I failed my first test and it changed my life. One professor, one bad grade, and suddenly Lord Byron became a shadow I'd carry for decades.