Our current times have gotten me questioning my white privilege. I remember reading Peggy McIntosh in graduate school. Her work introduced me to the idea of an Invisible Knapsack. She explains, "White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsa...

  During this back to school season, I took a look at a favorite book of poetry, Teaching With Fire: Poetry That Sustains The Courage To Teach, edited by Sam Intrator and Megan Scribner. "I, Remember" is in that book. "I Remember," a ...

I am thinking about the day after we arrived in Miami almost three years ago. Relocation. Part of being in a new place is not knowing where you are.  Another part of being in a new place, is when you are staying in a suburban La Quinta nea...

I sat at the bar and started to check Facebook when a fashionable middle-age man sitting by himself started a conversation with me. A few minutes later, an immediately fashionable middle-age woman, a tipsy socialite, returned from the restroom and j...