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…
The Reviled Hero
I’d love for you to join me in listening to or reading one of his most important, not famous, orations…
White Cousins
I’m being asked to have difficult conversations, not put on a uniform and go to war. I’m being asked to turn my mind and my heart to my skinfolk to bring them around…
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 new Lace on Race Café!
I joined the Lace on Race antiracism community in late May 2020, catalyzed by the murder of George Floyd…
The turn of the year
It’s hard to avoid the significance of the turn of the Julian calendar…
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…
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…