A Year of Reading

photo via Unsplash Summer of 2020 Happiness is morning light and -- except for birdsong -- silence. A book to get lost in, and a...

This is SUCH an important book, and it is incredibly humbling to realize that I am not the intended audience. What a (white) privilege...

image via Unsplash FALLIBILITY I am flawed. I make mistakes. I fail. Miserably, and in cringe-worthy ways. All the time. Yet I l...

photo via Unsplash I f it weren't for the fireflies' N ightly silent F ireworks I might have forgotten how much we N ...

Recently I read this article in School Library Journal-- Weeding Out Racism's Invisible Roots: Rethinking Children's Classics  by Pa...

This weekend I posted this piece on Facebook that Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul had shared-- Glorifying White Authors like DiAngelo Erases Decades o...

Credit for photo Sand Creek Cottonwoods At first the shade of the gnarled cottonwoods lining the dry creek bed is a relief....

I cannot be a bigger fan of Dictionary for a Better World by Irene Latham and Charles Waters .  WOW!  I was excited about this book when...

"To be WOKE is to understand that equality and justice for some is not equality and justice at all. We must stay alert. We must as...

Peonies have passed the baton to primroses in my garden. In My Yard Cat stalking the fledgling on the fence has thievery in mind. The young ...