Driving past beautiful homes, houses, and highrises. There’s tents lining the sidewalks and streets. Trash, clothes, tires, and cans. There’s a lot of nothing . Like to hurry up and wait. It doesn’t make sense. So many people with so little. Next to so few with so much. A picture perfect moment. A picture perfect… Continue reading This Caption. Contrast
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Grief Driving
Grief Driving ( written August 2020) Dad, Do you remember the summer mornings when you’d drive us to Munising for our days with Mom? Or when we’d leave the house early to go fishing? The hot afternoons, coming home from one of the little league baseball games or fishing trips? Windows down, music up, and… Continue reading Grief Driving
Activism Actions: From one White Person to Another, Day 81
*disclosure: This the conclusion to a week long journal project I wrote in June 2020. This was written over two months later on September 3rd . I spent the first week of June 2020 starting a journey to understand and educate myself on racism in America and world wide, to understand my own racism and… Continue reading Activism Actions: From one White Person to Another, Day 81
Writing my Grief: Racism, Violence, and the Shit.
Dad, This isn’t really related, but I wanted to say it. The whole world is grieving right now. You told me once that I felt what the world felt. I do. You told me it wasn’t a bad thing. You told me I needed to know that about myself. Might have been one of your… Continue reading Writing my Grief: Racism, Violence, and the Shit.
#SecondHandSeptember
Love when I talk about stuff other than grief? Love my little mini series? Good news, as 'Activism Actions: From One White Person to Another' will be ending in the next week or so, I have come up with another fabulous thing to write about, for the month of September. Inspired by and in conjunction… Continue reading #SecondHandSeptember
Activism Actions: From One White Person to Another, Day 4
*disclosure: This is an excerpt from a journal I kept the second week of June 2020. I spent this week starting a journey to understand and educate myself on racism in America and world wide, to understand my own racism and to start to work that I will be doing everyday for the rest of… Continue reading Activism Actions: From One White Person to Another, Day 4
Activism Action: From one White Person to Another, Day 3
*disclosure: this is an excerpt from a journal I kept the second week of June 2020. It contains my thoughts and feelings as I worked hard to educate myself about racism in America and world wide. Specifically as I came to know my own racism and privilege. It was a week that started a journey… Continue reading Activism Action: From one White Person to Another, Day 3
Picking the Pen back up
I kept writing, but couldn't find the emotional 'pagh' to post. Which is okay. I'm working accepting my own need for a break so soon after I'd gotten started. I've spent the last several days going through what I have written and queuing it up for posting. Most of it is related to racism and… Continue reading Picking the Pen back up
Activism Action: From one White Person to Another, Day 1
( I would encourage anyone who thinks that this Amplifying Melanated Voices challenge sounds good, to try it. You might be the only one doing it that week. But it really changed my outlook... my feed. Everything.) Day one: #AmplifyMelanatedVoices I’m muted. At least I am on Instagram, but see I process through writing and… Continue reading Activism Action: From one White Person to Another, Day 1
Thank you Rachel Ricketts
Let me start by saying that I have only recently discovered Rachel Ricketts and don’t know her personally. https://www.rachelricketts.com/ That said in the last two weeks I have spent an almost absurd amount of time on her website. I came across her IG shortly after people started protesting the murder of George Floyd by police… Continue reading Thank you Rachel Ricketts
Coffee & Conundrums 