by Louise | 1 April 2018 | Cultural differences, Encountering prejudice, Essays |
This isn’t the janitor at work, but a janitor at a high school in New York, with his valedictorian daughter who’s now in college. Reading time: 3 minutes I’ve been thinking about the janitor at the place where I work. I recently started a new job,...
by Louise | 7 January 2018 | Encountering prejudice, Essays |
Reading time: 2 minutes Kyle and I drove down to Bend to pack up the rest of my stuff and clean out the apartment. We ate out a couple of times on the trip, and as I always do, I was watching to see people’s reactions. At the Bend Burger Company on 3rd St., no one had...
by Louise | 17 September 2017 | Encountering prejudice |
Seen on a car in the Walmart parking lot Reading time: 2 minutes I’ve just moved to a small town east of the Cascades to start a new job. Kyle and I are playing it by ear, taking things as they come, when we’re thinking about how and when he’ll join me. As I’m...
by Louise | 30 March 2017 | Encountering prejudice |
Which one of these do you think is a doctor? (Guess what, they all are!) Reading time: 2 minutes Last summer, I mediated a case with a woman from South America who was a family physician, but got called “Miss” at her practice while all the other doctors were called...
by Louise | 12 February 2017 | Encountering prejudice, Essays |
Lost Lake Cafe, Seattle Reading time: 7 minutes When Kyle and I started dating, he made me read Lawrence Otis Graham’s book Member of the Club. “You need to know what you’re getting into, dating a black man,” he said. Member of the Club is a collection of essays about...
by Louise | 10 November 2016 | Current events and commentary, Encountering prejudice | Tags: Love
A Yard Sign in Bothell, Washington Reading time: 4 min. Kyle put it best. We were lying in bed Tuesday night, when it was almost certain that Hillary Clinton wouldn’t win. I was trying to put a name to what I was feeling. Kyle said, “You know how when you wake up in a...
