A Note on the Terms in White Picket Fences
White Picket Fences addresses the topic of privilege, giving particular attention to race, class, and disability. I chose to use the term “African American” most of the time within these…
Hope for Healing: Engaging with the Problem of Privilege
Hope for Healing When I started to really engage with the problem of privilege, I wanted to figure out how to fix it. I studied the issues by reading books…
7 Non-Fiction Books I Recommend for (White) People Who Want to Understand Our Racial Divides
Lately I have been getting a lot of questions about books that I recommend for people who want to further understand our racial divides, and that have helped shape my…
An Erroneous S and the Power of Language: Why My Book Had to be Reprinted at the Last Second
For the past few years, I’ve been working on a memoir about race, class and disability called White Picket Fences: Turning toward Love in a World Divided by Privilege. Getting…
Why I Wrote White Picket Fences
One of the questions I get asked a lot about White Picket Fences: Turning toward Love in a World Divided by Privilege is why I wrote it. Why would…
Trust Your Love Instead Of Your Fear
A few days after the Presidential election of 2016, I wrote this post. Looking back on it now, it seems like a great introduction to my writing and thinking, so…
Thoughts from April 23-27, 2018
Once a week I compile the reflections I’ve offered on Facebook into one blogpost. Here are the thoughts from the past five days: Monday, April 23, 2018 Do you ever…
Thoughts from January 15-19, 2018
Once a week I compile the reflections I’ve offered on Facebook into one blogpost. Here are the thoughts from the past five days: Monday, January 15, 2018 I realized a…
Two Great Books for Kids about Women of Color
I realized a few years ago that because we were only reading "classic" children's books out loud to our kids, we were only reading books with white children and…
Digging into my Family’s History with Native Americans
My family has been in the United States since before the United States existed. Distant relatives on both my mother's and father's sides arrived in Massachusetts and Connecticut in the…
