A few summers ago I took my camera and headed on a little tour of places I like to visit and snapped a lot of photos. I don’t get to play around with photography as much as I want, but I have a little collection of favorites. The red door of the First Presbyterian Church [...]
There’s just no way right now to sum up all the things that I experienced yesterday when reading the phenomenal comments left by readers on my post “I’m Black Irish and I’m Proud” because, well, it is just too much at the moment. The comments sticking out to me are the ones where readers just [...]
Yesterday I came into contact with a racist. A table full of them to be exact. My contact with them could have gone much better on my part. But I’m cynical about this sort of stuff having grown up light-skinned enough to “pass”. I come by that honestly. Now, my father, on the other hand, [...]
Lately, my posts about education are getting more and more frequent. There is also, of course, the creeping in of posts about pregnant girls that lead naturally back to my own pregnant teen years. It’s hard to miss that the word “years” was plural. The more I do that the more I get questions (via [...]
It wasn’t a question I anticipated. In truth, I don’t suppose that I’d ever really hear it. The emphasis being on the word “I”. I never thought that I, Kelly, would ever hear this question. Not because it’s a stupid question and yes, there are stupid questions. There are also ignorant questions. There are ridiculous [...]
There’s not much that stumps me in my job and I’ve embraced humility enough to know that I don’t always know the answers to the complicated messes that introduce themselves to me like a stranger at the grocery store. “Oh, hello. I’m the awkward beef cow tongue sitting in plastic wrap in the frozen meat [...]
It was a whirlwind day and yet it was entirely typical of what happens at our high school. In most high schools, probably. I just thought it was worthwhile to put this day down as an official mark that this is what regularly happens. First thing in the morning my secretary called me on the [...]
Just when I think I can wrap my brain around the understanding that divorce is, in fact, here to stay then I get a call that it’s happening to someone else I know. Do you have any advice? No. I’m not expert at this. I barely get it myself. I just waded through some dark [...]
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