Last Monday, I took my son to the library. They have a large playspace there and while he was at the top of the tunnel slide a slightly older boy clobbered him. The boy climbed right over top of Riley’s head in an effort to get into the slide. When I saw what happened and went … Continue reading
This is me, extending my hand towards Ferguson. (At least, I drafted it with this community in mind. Then it sat for weeks and weeks. I scheduled it before the Eric Garner decision was announced. But I’m too sad, angry and confused to fold thoughts about that into this. So I will let this stay … Continue reading
We visited some friends a few weeks ago who were in the midst of putting up Christmas decorations. I saw and instantly loved that they had a nativity set that was a toy, where their young kids could, and did, really play with it all. When I saw the same toy set at the store … Continue reading
Privilege, privilege everywhere. Maybe I am becoming over sensitive. Maybe I was blind before, given that I am a beneficiary of white privilege, educational privilege, western privilege, and so on… So now I see it where I didn’t before, although it was there all along, like how you see strollers everywhere after having a baby, … Continue reading
