Sunday, May 5, 2019

Talking to my white son, as a white mom, about de/colonization

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I recently realized I haven’t talked much with my kid (age six) about our country’s colonialist past and the fact that we live on stolen lan...
Friday, March 29, 2019

Supermarket Blues: Classism in America

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I recently watched this brief video  with my six-year-old. Afterward, Finn, who lately is interested in dramatic situations and intense emot...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

Talking with my white kid, as a white mom, about mass incarceration

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April 2018 Scene: It’s bedtime, and I’m chatting about this and that with my kid while he flips through a book.  Kid: Mama, what is jail...

We Are the Immigrants

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Topics of immigration and asylum seeking continue to be front-and-center in the U.S., with 45 taking every opportunity to make his unabashed...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Getting Comfortable with Discomfort--with ++ support from the ACT for Social Justice team

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ACT for Social Justice, based in Brattleboro, VT, published the below account of mine --which I'm sharing here as well. If you're ...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

Sunday Dinner

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Always my grandparents arrived disguised as harmless elders.  They'd say grace, bless the three of us and our small residence  above...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

December Morning

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How did I come to this late happiness  as I wake into my remaining days another morning in my life with Paula taking me by surprise like ...