Procrastadabbler

I just finished Thandeka’s book “Learning to be White.” It’s a different take on race theory than I’ve read in the past. Thandeka, a Unitarian/Universalist minister and theologian who’s also a psychologist takes, as one would expect takes a psychological perspective on how white identity is formed. Thandeka, by the way is African American. I [...]

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It’s the night before Thanksgiving and I’m in a rotten mood. We’re driving to New Jersey tomorrow to spend the day with my husband’s family. That’ll be fine. I like my sister-in-law and her family, as well as my brother-in-law and his son. They’re fun and easy to be with. So it’s none of that [...]

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I read the NYTimes online. Every morning, I receive an email with selected headlines (I selected the categories when I subscribed). Some mornings I scan the headlines and don’t find too much of interest. It could be my mood, or the news itself. On other days, I find quite a bit that I want to [...]

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The NYTimes has a rather disturbing article today about the “Mom Job.” The Mom Job is plastic surgery to remove the physical results of pregnancy. It is a package deal that includes breast lifts (with our without implants), liposuction, and a tummy tuck. That alone is disturbing that society on the whole and many women [...]

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Literature is an issue for me. Just what constitutes literature. I have an undergraduate degree in English and a MS in English Education. I love to read. But frankly I don’t care much for what the Englishy types call literature. Much is presumptuous and pretentious. It’s a matter of cultural capital rather than really affecting [...]

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