My feet had no choice but to step on the campus the morning after a provoked teacher threatened to kill all the children, forcing the staff to watch. Old red, white, and blue, dangled in the bright, cloudless sky. I was told the testing for one of my kids would take around two hours. I checked […]
She’s obsessed with super-heroes. Always has been. Superman, Batman, Wonder-woman, Flash. It’s Saturday morning. The reports of a local, Burlington shooter, echoes in my mind. “He’s still loose.” They say. She wakes, I turn on Twitter, off the briefing. Letting her be a child…as long as grace will keep her. After all, who wants to go […]
Before you read these words. Let’s be clear. This is not some Caucasian woman hidden in white suburbia her whole life. This is a white woman whose very first friend was African American. I’ve had friends who were Laos, and Thai. My best friend, Mexican. Some of my other friends were from India and American Indian. […]
She sits unassuming. Drawn to her…not knowing why. Next to her resides, the man with transparent eyes. And I need to know them, need to hear their story. Seemingly just an ordinary, average, every-day after dinner get-together, with some of our closest friends. But soon I’d find, this meeting was nothing but ordinary. This couple, tugging […]
Another shooting. This time, not far off; somewhere I can’t map, or a place I’ve never been to… But here. Right here in my city. Oso mudslide in the next town last year, and now some teen grabs a gun and decides to shoot hate inside a lunch room…instead of love? And when video games immune […]