It has been a ridiculous week where I did find myself as a Black and Indigenous woman having to act for my kids’ school to write a racism statement and then act to do something as momentum about racism was already dwindling. The one community conversation quickly steered and was symbolized with a complaint that […]
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It Starts With Values
I could say this week has been a whole thing, this lifetime, or these 401+ years – they all follow the same course. Hello everyone. I am a human. Just like you are a human I am a human. I should not have to work for this fact to be normalized, yet here we are […]
Ancestors, Diaspora, and Belonging
Growing up I did not have much family. My mother’s Black family disowned her when she married my father from Panama. My grandmother called me “the brown one” until I was 19 when she realized I was sticking with the college thing but she still wasn’t necessarily nice to me. My father’s adoptive White family […]
DÃa de Halloween
If you clicked through the headline then you are here for one of three reasons: RAGE because these events should NOT be combined ASSURANCE because you think these events are combined CURIOSITY because you are not sure if these events are combined The headline is simply clickbait. I firmly think that people combine these events […]
I Feel Pretty As I Am (with no help from THAT movie)
Oh boy, perhaps not watching TV bit me in the butt recently. I saw one trailer, one fun trailer for I Feel Pretty and that apparently was the only good cut of the trailer. I missed the others. I missed the controversy. I was intrigued from the one trailer I saw. I know a number […]
Mission Nature Trail Preserve Hike in Carmel, CA
I recently traveled to Carmel-by-the-Sea for a sponsored visit with #llblognotaconf. I was sponsored for the trip to experience the area but opinions are my own. Let’s travel so I can take you through the 1-square-mile village of Carmel-by-the-Sea, along the winding trails, and to the mission that helped establish the area. The 35-acre park offers […]