Archive for Race and Culture

Happy Holidays!

I know it is has been kind of quiet around here, but would you believe I am now on day 8 of this annoying illness/cold?  I have just been totally wiped out.
That won’t get in the way of my Christmas post though, never fear.  (Especially because I am going to mostly just post pictures!)  So [...]

Follow up

It is getting late, so I am going to respond to the previous post’s comments with some stuff I wrote to an online friend privately via email.  I hope she won’t mind.
After I wrote the post, I gave the situation some more thought.  I think what is going on is that this kid is a [...]

The other conference topic

About a month ago, M came home from school saying some surprising things.   In addition to her speshul snowflakedness, I also talked to her teacher about what M said in this conversation:
M: Mama, I don’t like Jason*.  He is in my class an I don’t like him.
Me: Why not?
M: He has a mustache.
(I will confess, [...]

Chinese School di san nian (year three?)

I was poking around my (very poorly organized) archives and realized I haven’t mentioned much about Chinese school this  year.   Since I have written various posts about it in year one and year two (see below for links to related posts ) , I should probably keep up the trend for year three.
(I messed up [...]

Under our skin

For the past few weeks, I have been volunteering to make calls for the Obama campaign.  The calls I am making are to people who live within about one or two miles from my house.   After the first night when I got a few really nasty comments from people who do not support Obama, I [...]