Recent Posts
Why Now?
My plan was to slowly develop Advancing Wisdom during my last years of parenting and do my professional launch in 2023 or thereabouts. What changed?
The white person’s Black History Month
I am a donor to the human rights and racial justice organization Equal Justice Initiative. EJI’s founder and Executive Director is Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy and one of this year’s MacArthur Foundation fellows…
Your COVID vaccination
Are you preparing to schedule your COVID vaccination as soon as your group or tier is called? Have you considered delaying it? I hope you will, and here’s why…
This is exactly who we are.
“This is not who we are,” feigned every white politician and pundit speaking about Wednesday’s armed invasion of the USA Capitol…
A warning, or an omen?
We cannot bring ourselves closer to white conservatives without stepping away from people of color…
The Shortest Day
The Winter Solstice has a pause at its very heart: the discernible moment between declining sun and rising sun, like the turning point between my inhalation and my exhalation when I am meditating…
When Racism Shows Up
We have to work for antiracist behavior, every day. We have to look at our politics, our psychology, our economics, our faiths, and more…
Black Reparations
Reparations need to include cultural and structural revisions as well as significant financial restitution…
My new anti-racism community
I didn’t want to step out into active anti-racism work before I had someone give me the once over, not just for readiness, but for safety of the people of color I’d be working for and with…
Antiracism & white people
It’s necessary for white people to participate in antiracism work. It’s also dangerous…
Climate justice is racial justice
Find and support environmental organizations led by people of color…
I am a donor to the human rights and racial justice organization Equal Justice Initiative. EJI’s founder and Executive Director is Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy and one of this year’s MacArthur Foundation fellows…