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A few mornings ago, my 6 yr old kid Lula and her friend were discussing ‘family’ on the drive to school. They discovered that they both have cousins from Edmonton named Mackenzie, then Lula decides to discuss RACE and was like, “my Mom’s side is Chinese, and my dad’s side is……(she trails off, tries a [...] My daughter Lula has this ritual at bedtime. Just as we are about to make the escape from her room and close that door behind us, she calls out, “Can you stay with me for just one minute?” and anyone with a brain knows what that means, and when we agree because we have accepted that [...] All my life, since I was a small girl, I’ve examined anything I saw as beautiful and I’ve studied art. Alone for hours in my parents’ lounge, I’d pore over the few Chinese paintings that were hung on the walls. I’d stare and stare and look at the expressions on the painted faces, make [...] If any of you are stay at home mothers, and have just spent all day long (10 plus hours) alone with your young children, engaging, playing, soothing, teaching, cleaning and picking up after them and picking them up, I get that you want to scream and I get that you want to cry and [...] The truth is, sometimes I feel small. The truth is, sometimes I don’t think I have anything of use to share with the world. The truth, is I’m afraid that people will blame me. The truth is, I’m afraid. Yes, this is uncharted territory for me. Writing from a personal place, not a story i [...] |
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