by Louise | 18 June 2017 | Chapters, Early Years with Kyle |
Kyle, visiting me in Atlanta Reading time: 3 minutes See that smiling, skinny, impish young man in the photo? That’s Kyle, the first time he came to visit me. I was living in Atlanta, in a townhouse in an apartment complex, and Kyle’s sitting at the table in my dining...
by Louise | 11 June 2017 | Chapters, Early Years with Kyle |
Reading time: 4 minutes Sunday morning, I was sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast, as Mr. and Mrs. Jones were getting ready to go to Sunday School. Mr. Jones started talking about this new suit that a friend of his had gotten, how nice it was, how well it...
by Louise | 4 June 2017 | Chapters, Early Years with Kyle |
Kyle’s Parents’ House Reading time: 5 minutes Kyle flew to Baltimore from Seattle, so we could drive down to Danville together. Before we left, I made him help me wash my car. I wanted to impress his parents. What a silly thing! Not that I wanted to...
by Louise | 28 May 2017 | Chapters, Early Years with Kyle |
Shockoe Baptist Church, Java, Virginia Reading time: 4 minutes “Black people come in all different shades, don’t they?” I asked my friend Crissa. “So will they notice I’m white?” “Honey,” replied Crissa, “they’ll notice.” It was May 2000, and I was asking Crissa what...
by Louise | 14 May 2017 | Chapters, Growing-Up Years |
A happy couple Reading time: 2 minutes When I was in fourth or fifth grade, I wrote a short story that addressed issues of race. But the way I remember myself, that was long before I knew anything about race at all. So where did I get the idea to write about it? I...
by Louise | 11 May 2017 | Growing-Up Years |
From my junior high school yearbook. Notice how you can hardly make out the features of the two African American students? Reading time: 2 minutes It’s baffling, how you can be so used to something that you don’t notice it. Kyle likes that TV series The West Wing. One...
