“I am grateful that Amy Julia Becker had the courage to create White Picket Fences. It's such an essential discussion, so relevant and yet somehow so difficult, and I admire…
Today I am celebrating the one year anniversary of the publication of White Picket Fences. It’s hard to believe it only came out a year ago because I have learned…
As I read this book, I realized what a gift it is to walk through this story with such an incredibly candid guide! Amy Julia Becker makes herself vulnerable…
I’ve focused on the content of the 1619 Project this week, and I want to recommend a few additional podcasts, articles, and books for anyone who wants to explore more…
My son William is a curious and inquisitive eleven year old. He loves to learn and to discuss big ideas. I wrote a book called Small Talk a few years…
Toni Morrison was a mentor from afar to me, first as a writer of fiction, later as a professor for a course I took at Princeton, and then through her…
In a previous post, I set out to select 20 diverse books from a few of our children’s favorites in various age groups: toddler, pre-school, early elementary, later elementary, middle…
Four years ago, I was working on a book about children’s literature. I loved the experience of reading out loud to our kids, especially reading chapter books, and I wanted…
Societies have drawn dividing lines throughout all of human history that demonstrate who is “in” and who is “out.” In Western culture, we’ve seen those lines through the history of…
“Are you going to tell me I have to sell my house?” “How should I respond when people tell me I am a burden to society?” “The word privilege doesn’t…
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