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Thayer-Bacon tells her story in a conversational tone that traces her personal and professional roots as she describes various chapters of her life: first as a philosopher, how she became involved in education, and then how that involvement became a career as a philosopher of education, in a large teacher education program, and now at a research institution. She sketches her philosophical contributions, as a pragmatist, feminist, postmodernist, and cultural studies scholar, to philosophy, philosophy of education, and education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the author's views on viewing philosophical theories as fishing nets, highlighting postmodernism and Zen Buddhism. Topics include accepting the idea that the self is constantly changing and impermanent, the Montessori method of education, and her undergraduate philosophy professor Alphonso Lingis. She notes that the fishing nets will need to be repaired and reweaved regularly as there will always be more ideas and experience that the nets can hold.