Hi Friends, I hope you are finding joy this holiday season. I have been thinking about a couple of things that I want to digest with you. …

Hi Friends, I apologize for my long absence. The first few months of the school year have been more demanding than in the past (something about having kids in two different schools in two different districts…). …

Hi Friends, Welcome to the new school year! We moved two of our kiddos to a more integrated school this year (my eldest will wait another year before we move her to a more integrated middle school), so there were a lot of changes yet again for our family and…

Hi Friends, I have been thinking a lot about what it means to live in a community, but not to be in community with our neighbors. What I have observed and experienced about affluent White parenting is how isolating it is, how competitive and closed-off it can be as families…

Hi Friends, Little did I know when I wrote about grief last time, that it would only be compounded further only a few weeks later. I hope you are taking time to process what you’re feeling and that you are kind and patient with yourself. I need to take my…

Hi Friends, My heart has been so heavy, like something is pressing on my chest. Emotional grief, compounded with the onset of covid in our household, has had me focusing on everyday activities and very little else for the last couple of weeks. Even so, there are moments of clarity…

Hi Friends, This is not about Buffalo and it is about Buffalo. That’s because Buffalo (and so many more) is about each and every one of us. And I’m not sure I even know what to say. …

Hi Friends, I hope you’re all well and finding your way clear-eyed and hopeful. One month until summer! I have been circling around a few themes this month that I wanted to share with you. The first is how important memory and history are to our current understanding of the…

Hi Friends, Happy Spring! I hope you’re all enjoying the re-emergence of life and nature into our surroundings and finding new ways to recognize and be in solidarity with our planet and each other. I touched on the role of fear in my Scarcity and Hoarding post in January and…