Tiny Things
Why are tiny things so appealing? Miniaturized things? In the case of dollhouses, it can only be that one doesn’t have to clean the toilets. In the case of this display from Brookside Gardens in Montgomery County, MD, where I grew up (and pretty much the best...
Food Faction
Richmond.com just published this interview with me today. 5 Questions with a Foodie. I would never say I’m a foodie or a native Richmonder, so let anyone come at me with their knives sharpened. As Stephen Robertson pointed out (ha!), sharp ones are better than...
Words and No Words
It’s common enough to say there are no words upon hearing of someone’s death. It’s understandable–touching even. But it can’t be said about Maurice Sendak’s passing. There are words, so many and so wonderful. And there are...Pardon my French
Mais non, je ne pas cuss all that much in writing. In speaking–that’s another thing. My roommate in college did not approve of my cussing though it was tame, very tame. I truly learned to cuss when I taught at a Catholic boys school right out of college....
Mountain Meals
I have been to the mountains and I didn’t want to leave. No cell phone coverage. No internet. Sky–lots of it. Also more maple syrup than I technically needed, but that’s Highland County’s thing, so can’t really argue with it. It...ME on Twitter
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A must-read op-ed on Virginia’s “divisive concepts.” 🔥🔥🔥
“Today, white resistance to educational equity initiatives in Virginia and elsewhere centers on an ahistorical and perverted view of Title VI’s prohibition against discrimination. https://twitter.com/petertpiazza/status/1637457314235006976
Fantastic piece from Genevieve Siegel-Hawley that connects book bans/censorship to racial segregation in US schools.
“White resistance flourishes when we refuse to grasp how central anti-Black racism is to our history and contemporary society.”
https://richmond.com/zzstyling/view-oped-sig/column-segregated-schools-not-divisive-concepts-are-what-divide-us/article_5a1572b0-c42d-11ed-9c87-278ea000898c.html