LLAG: Love Life of an Asian Guy
My post about (the bigoted) Dr. Christiane Northrup got some response from regular readers, but I got even more response to it when I shared it on Facebook. Specifically, I follow a page called Love Life of an Asian Guy which is written by a Filipino-American man...
What To Do When You See Islamophobic Harassment
A Paris film maker and illustrator who goes by Maeril created these graphics so we'll know what to do the next time we see someone harassing someone else for appearing to be Muslim. The strategy is to create a safe space for the person being harassed and...
Dr. Christiane Northrup, MD
Dr. Christiane Northrup, MD is an internationally known expert on women's health and wrote the bestseller The Wisdom of Menopause. She has appeared in hundreds of podcasts, radio shows and television shows, including Oprah. Her writing encourages women to take control...
Wearing the Button
So I was having lunch with a young white woman in a cafe today, and a middle-aged white man leaned over and interrupted our conversation. "Excuse me. Can I ask you a question? I see you're wearing a Black Lives Matter button and can I just ask you one question?" I...
How to Apologize Properly
Do you know someone who needs a lesson on how to give a true apology? We hear a lot of false ones in public life. Here's how to say "I'm sorry" properly.
No Such Thing as Evil
Slaveholders, rapists and serial killers are evil. No, they're not. In his book The Gift of Fear, Gavin de Becker argues that defining people as evil is not only unproductive, it's dangerous. It's dangerous because we conceptualize evil as being so pervasive that you...
No Such Thing as Heroism
Last night I noticed that Amazon Prime now offers the movie Hotel Rwanda. It's based on the true story of a hotel manager who shielded 1,268 people from certain slaughter during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. I couldn't resist watching it (for the fourth time). What I'm...
50th Birthday
As of July 24, 2016 I am 50 years old and I feel like I've finally reached my prime. (Cake was yellow layers with buttercream frosting on the outside and mango mousse on the inside. It was from Swedish Bakery in Chicago.)
Trump, Immigrants and the RNC
Now that I'm building a new blog for my business, Welcome Dialogue, I choose between my two blogs, depending on the content. Today's post is here: http://wp.me/p76ImY-6h. UPDATE on 22 Jan 2019: Sadly, I took down the Welcome Dialogue website and accepted that...
I Love Turning 50!
As I get closer to my 50th birthday on July 24th, I'm getting tired of people trying to tell me I'm not old. They obstinately don't understand that for me old is good. I have always been happy to get a year older because I experienced no great benefit to being young,...
Order Your Black Lives Matter Buttons
Decided it was finally time to get some of these. I ordered them here: Peace Buttons.
NPRs This American Life: “Tell Me I’m Fat”
Previous post on weight & health: Slow as weight loss National Public Radio's This American Life program recently broadcast a show called "Tell Me I'm Fat." On their website, it's described like this: The way people talk about being fat is shifting. With...