WHAM!
When I started dating Todd Thomason, I had no idea I was signing up for a 30-year cultural exchange program. While I was a...
Coronations
There were two coronations the weekend of May 6th: One in England and one in Shondaland. For those who don’t know, England is a...
A Review and a Reckoning Part 1
After listening to Clint Smith speak in an interview about his book How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery...
A Review and a Reckoning Part 2
While planning my daughters’ homeschool history lessons I stumbled across Wheatlands Plantation about an hour away from where we’ve been living in Tennessee. Not...
Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down
There are two traditional Scripture readings associated with Ash Wednesday. The Gospel lesson is Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 in which Jesus gives His disciples instructions...
In Remembrance
This is my first MLK Day holiday after five years in Canada where the third Monday in January is just another day, the start...
Dense
Ah, the colors of fall. Orange, red, gold, russet, and … pink. Yep. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and, if you have...
Heritage of Hate
The intense national debate over the removal of Confederate monuments often boils down to questions of intent and affect. What was the original intent...
The Legacy of September 11th
All of us who lived through September 11, 2001, remember precisely where we were and what we were doing when news of the terrorist...
Declaring Our Independence
The two nations on the North American continent that celebrate independence from Great Britain do so three days apart each year.  Here in Toronto, this...
