May 2019 – Grouchy in Paradise

A Partial List of Resources About Race, Racism, Critical Race Theory, and Other Things: Films, Books, Articles, Websites, Museums, Music, and Other Resources

Film/Television I am Not Your Negro (Prime and Netflix) The Hate U Give (Prime) The Uncomfortable Truth (Prime) Birth of a Movement (prime) Sis, You Okay? (Prime) The FBI’s War on Black America (Prime) The Aryans: The Madness of Racism (Prime) Two Black Men A Week (Prime) The Wire (HBO) Kill the Messenger (Netflix) Our…

Family Secrets and Life Choices

Sometimes life breaks us apart into pieces we spend the rest of our lives trying to find and piece back together. We may stumble upon a piece of ourselves as we are just going about living our lives and sometimes we conduct an exploration to find some of the pieces of ourselves lying about the…

I’m Exhausted

Maybe it’s because my last kid has left the house and is in college. Or maybe it’s because I’m almost to the point of rounding the final bend to 50. Maybe I’m experiencing a mid-life crisis. Or maybe it’s because I find myself at a crossroads. Regardless of the reason, I’m realizing how deeply exhausted…