by Louise | 30 October 2016 | Progress Updates, Short Notes |
Reading time: 2 min. I’m working on a long post about the first time I shared a dwelling with someone who wasn’t white. It was in college, when I was living in this small off-campus house, and one of my housemates for a while was a black man. In trying to write the...
by Louise | 26 October 2016 | Current events and commentary |
Black Lives Matter protest, New York, 2014. Reading time: 4 min. I went to a mediation conference recently. There was this one session about Honor Culture; in Honor Cultures, people in a group are loyal to themselves and defend each other against outside attack,...
by Louise | 24 October 2016 | Miscellaneous |
The program for Mrs. Hardgrove’s memorial service. Reading time: 2 min. 30 sec. The couple who lived next door to us when I was growing up, had adopted two kids who weren’t white. This was in West Seattle in the 1950s. Nobody did that. I’m thinking about that...
by Louise | 20 October 2016 | Current events and commentary, Suggestions and advice |
Dear America, a successful person of color isn’t an excuse to ignore every person of color who isn’t successful. In this video, originally a Facebook Live event, I rant about how some idiots are responding to this article on LinkedIn, Dear America, I’m not...
by Louise | 16 October 2016 | Progress Updates |
At my computer on a rainy Saturday evening. Reading time: 2 min. I’m usually not satisfied with my writing. I always wonder if I could make a post better, like make it more succinct, make the language beautiful, evoke more emotion in you my readers. I’m working on a...
