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 | 18 March 2018 | Essays |
Reading time: 2 minutes I asked a coworker a stupid question the other day. Well, it wasn’t stupid so much as it was unthinking. What happened was, a coworker came up to the front desk last week, wanting to know how he could get a book sent back to the...
by Louise | 4 March 2018 | Essays |
Kyle’s family. See how the women are dressed? Reading time: 5 minutes Years ago, the tectonic plates of my soul shifted. That’s actually how I experienced it. I felt like I had a fault line running from up above me to my right, diagonally down to my left....
by Louise | 18 February 2018 | Essays |
Reading time: 3 minutes I’ve noticed something. When I give talks, about diversity or the lessons I’ve learned from being a mediator, a lot of times people will come up to me afterwards and tell me stories about something that’s related to what I was...
by Louise | 4 February 2018 | Essays |
Reading time: 5 minutes “Hands off the Hair” The other day, I saw an African-American woman wearing a T-shirt that read “Hands off the Hair.” This was at St. Therese Catholic Church in Leschi, where I go to the Sunday noon mass once a month or so. It’s a mixed-race...
by Louise | 21 January 2018 | Essays |
Outside the building where I worked Reading time: 4 minutes You probably noticed that I wrote about how I moved to central Oregon to take a job. And you may have noticed that my last post started out by saying, “Kyle and I drove down to Bend to pack up the rest of my...
