I have done something I’ve needed to do for a long time. I quit my night teaching job. Really. I know it’s the right thing for me. Teaching three nights a week on top of my day job and my morning class has really been running me into the ground. I get home so late [...]
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Bowing out.
Posted in NaBloPoMo, choose your own adventure, letting go, self care, teaching, thank-you-thank-you-thank-you, work, tagged choose your own adventure, crazy-making, letting go, NaBloPoMo, sad, self care, teaching, thank-you-thank-you-thank-you, work on 26 November 2009 | 6 Comments »
Connecting the dots.
Posted in NaBloPoMo, brain freeze, choose your own adventure, containing myself, family, full disclosure?, mothers and daughters, race and racism, teaching, where we're from, tagged backstories, choose your own adventure, containing myself, family, full disclosure?, mothers and daughters, NaBloPoMo, race and racism, teaching, the family adventure, where we're from on 20 November 2009 | 9 Comments »
After the surprise of seeing photos of the matriarchs in my family, my students stumbled over what those photos were saying to them. We had, you’ll remember, just been talking about the “shock” of discovering that Michelle Obama has a white person (at least one) in her family tree. That was, of course, the reason [...]
Maybe seeing will be believing …
Posted in NaBloPoMo, family, full disclosure?, mothers and daughters, people I love, prejudice, race and racism, teaching, where we're from, women, tagged teaching, race and racism, where we're from, family, full disclosure?, people I love, mothers and daughters, black woman, the family adventure, NaBloPoMo, women, prejudice on 19 November 2009 | 4 Comments »
In my morning class, when we read the Times article about Michelle Obama’s “shocking” family tree, we had a conversation about the issue of family histories, about Jefferson and Hemings, about the “important American story” Megan Smolenyak is trying to tell for black people in this country.
“Why might it be hard for African Americans to [...]
And if I’m gay, what’s your point?
Posted in NaBloPoMo, homophobia, language, out and about, people I love, prejudice, teaching, tagged crazy-making, dumb-ass crap, homophobia, language, NaBloPoMo, out and about, people I love, prejudice, teaching on 18 November 2009 | 8 Comments »
Catching up with Jay, I was happy to find this little history lesson on tap:
As a life-long ‘East Coast Cat” myself, I’m glad Jay chose to step up and share a little knowledge with Larry Johnson about Stonewall and ‘weakness’ … and in the process help us all remember that prejudice starts with ignorance.¹
I’m wondering [...]
What’d you get done in the last 14 1/3 weeks?
Posted in NaBloPoMo, Obama, choose your own adventure, teaching, what now?, tagged choose your own adventure, NaBloPoMo, Obama, Obama-sistible, politics, teaching, what now? on 17 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Author’s note: I’m cleaning house today and found this post lying around in my “Draft” folder. It’s from April 30th, so it’s the 14 1/3 weeks before April 30th that this post refers to. Not sure why I never hit “Publish” when this is pretty much whole and says what I wanted to say. WordPress tells [...]
