Living with other people

After three years of living alone, I moved in with a family of five.  Living in their guesthouse was to be a temporary solution, until I slowly found myself falling in love. They were a fascinating cast of characters.  There was the father, a monosyllabic warm-hearted man, the wife, a Auntie-Mame style college professor, the [...]

Looking: How we respond to the suffering of others

I haven’t posted in a while, but have been getting amazing responses to this blog lately. Thank you so much, dear readers, for sharing your thoughts with me! Anyway, I have been feeling a little anxious about updating but am overwhelmed with writing my dissertation proposal. An amazing mentor and writing buddy of mine, Mike [...]

Race: What is in a category?

I have been thinking and talking and writing a lot about race lately. The Atlantic Monthly came out with an amazing piece in their Jan/Feb issue by Hua Hsu on whiteness. It has got me thinking. Other things that have me thinking are terms like “post-racial” America. America is changing demographically, [...]