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...
by Louise | 3 June 2018 | Cultural differences, Essays |
Reading time: 5 minutes Last weekend I went to see a play called “Familiar.” I went to see it because I’d heard it was really funny; all of my theater friends on Facebook who’d seen it said it was hilarious and good, and told everyone they...
by Louise | 6 May 2018 | Essays |
Aunt Jean and me at Kyle’s parents’ 50th wedding celebration. Kyle caught us laughing at something. Reading time: 5 minutes My husband’s Aunt Jean had a massive stroke last month. She’s starting to recover, but she has a long road ahead of her,...
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,...
