by Louise | 2 December 2018 | Essays |
Reading time: 3 minutes Have you ever heard the show “It’s Been a Minute” on NPR? It plays on KUOW here in Seattle at 5:00 on Saturday afternoons. One of the things I like about it is that it’s got a different voice and tone than most of NPR....
by Louise | 4 November 2018 | Essays |
The Burned Recycling Bin Reading time: 3 minutes This white guy insulted me and called me “white,” and I never could figure out why he called me white when he was white himself. It was a warm spring evening, a couple of years ago. I was at Cal Anderson Park, this...
by Louise | 7 October 2018 | Essays |
A Sikh man wearing a turban, with his son wearing a patka Reading time: 2 minutes About five years ago, I was being treated for an ongoing medical problem (which has been resolved, thank goodness). One time, my regular doctor was out of town, so I got a procedure done...
by Louise | 2 September 2018 | Current events and commentary, Essays |
Reading time: 5 minutes I got on an airplane just nine days after 9/11. The atmosphere at Baltimore-Washington international Airport was tense. Everyone was watchful and nervous and on edge. There were National Guardsmen all over the place, in their uniforms, with...
by Louise | 5 August 2018 | Current events and commentary, Essays |
Viola Davis as Aibileen Clark in “The Help” Reading time: 5 minutes I’ve watched the movie The Help many times over the years, and there’s something about it I never noticed until just the other night. You know that part at the beginning where...
by Louise | 8 July 2018 | Current events and commentary, Essays |
Photo from a performance of “Hands Up: 6 Playwrights, 6 Testaments.” Reading time: 5 minutes Three and a half years ago, I saw one of the most powerful, visceral, humorous, scary, and dangerous pieces of theater I’ve ever seen in my life, either...
