Mama
In their young efforts to address my George Floyd despair, my boys offered me this: "Mom, he did have meth in his system and had been previously arrested for armed…
What We Choose
My steady refusal of gifts and moments of staged harmony (in place of healing, repair, and honest connection) illuminated my unwillingness to bypass necessary mending. An offer to do the…
Torture
Torture (unlike abuse which is often spontaneous and unintentional, though still scarring) is pre-meditated and planned out. It is designed to methodically dismantle a person's identity and humanity, destroying a…
MY White Privilege
I was born to un-white skin, a foreign name, one Middle Eastern Moslem parent and the other an Agnostic Jew. Later, bussed across town to the "black school" for the…