Swimming In It

Trouble will come on its own, and there is no fancying it a stimulant to one’s creativity…. The clean and simple appreciation of ordinary, daily things, is a treasure like none on earth. –Kathleen Norris, The Virgin of Bennington I was wary about participating in this workshop on Holocaust education because I knew it was […]

Nice

Today I had a conversation with a woman who was Jewish about using Nazi propaganda to teach about bias. Maybe you should show more real and positive images of Jewish people, before and after these lessons, she said. Although I pretended to take her suggestions in stride, I was secretly squeaking with fear that […]

Simple Minded

I swear, the lassi was a touch sour. Although I was the saddest, loneliest person eating Indian food, I also believe the food was mediocre. They brought me free tomato soup, and I was still like, whatever. That morning at church, I had listened to the story of Nahum. Nahum is trying to get healed, […]

Kids

I ate noodles on a park bench while I watched them. Two kids were being assholes. Shouting after half-aged ladies once they were just far away enough to not exactly hear. “Is that a man? She’s more like an ape!” These boys were really bonding. We had two rows of trees with leaves as pink […]