by Louise | 29 January 2017 | Current events and commentary |
At the Seattle Womxn’s March, 21 January Reading time: 2 minutes I marched in the Womxn’s March in Seattle on January 21st. I felt good about it at the time, but by the next morning I started to wonder. The march went down Jackson Street in Seattle, right...
by Louise | 26 January 2017 | Chapters, Growing-Up Years |
Me at the back of the Brick House (only I flipped the image) Reading time: 4 minutes Have you ever had really strong memories of some event in your life, and then you find a photograph or a postcard or something you wrote about that event? And you realize your memory...
by Louise | 22 January 2017 | Current events and commentary |
What I wrote on the “why I’m marching” board along the route. Reading time: 1 minute I went to the march yesterday, the Womxn’s March in Seattle. I almost didn’t go because an African-American writer whose work I respect, Ijeoma Oluo, took...
by Louise | 19 January 2017 | Current events and commentary |
I’ll miss President Obama, and his sense of humor. Reading time: 4 minutes Tomorrow’s Inauguration Day. Donald Trump is going to be inaugurated president of the United States. I’ve been thinking about eight years ago, when President Obama was inaugurated for the...
by Louise | 15 January 2017 | Current events and commentary, Suggestions and advice |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s memorial in the snow in Anchorage, Alaska Reading time: 3 minutes If you’re a white person, and you’re talking to people of color about a prominent person of their same race or ethnic origin, you can’t ever be too respectful. One...
