by Louise | 28 July 2016 | Miscellaneous, Short Notes |
The Skykomish River, near Monroe, during my vacation last year. Reading time: 1 min. I’m going on vacation. I badly need a vacation, and I badly need a whole bunch of unstructured time. So I’m going on a zero-plan trip. I’m going to get in my car with the supplies I...
by Louise | 24 July 2016 | Essays |
Reading time: 5 min. When I kept my blog “I’m curious about people,” I wrote about this man who works in the Thai restaurant near where I live. You can see how I changed the way I saw him and related to him. #72 The weariness of cooking “Thai” food...
by Louise | 21 July 2016 | Current events and commentary, Encountering prejudice |
Schoolchildren in Ghana Reading time: 3 min. 30 sec. As I was driving home this evening, I heard a speech on the radio that scared the shit out of me. When I started my car, and my radio came on, it happened to come on during a speech that I knew must be from the...
by Louise | 17 July 2016 | Current events and commentary, Essays |
From police body-cam footage of Patrick Mumford’s arrest. Reading time: 4 min. There’s no way you can say that a black person is partly responsible for how police officers behave towards them, not without sounding like you’re blaming the victim. I spent a lot of...
by Louise | 14 July 2016 | Current events and commentary, Encountering prejudice, Essays |
Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) investigators process the scene of where a St. Anthony Police officer shot and killed 32-year-old Philando Castile in a car near Larpenteur Avenue and Fry Street in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, on July 6, 2016. Reading...
