by Nicole | Sep 30, 2021 | Observations
Do I Bow or Can I Hug? I pondered this question as I sat on the ten-hour flight from Los Angeles to Haneda Airport near Tokyo for our first ever visit to Japan. Tatsuya had been a twenty-nine year old businessman when he joined our family briefly in 1994. He came as...
by Nicole | Sep 30, 2021 | Children's Tales
My Aunt Sherry lives in Peter Cooper Village. That’s in New York City near the East River. I’m staying over this week because it’s my birthday and Aunt Sherry is making me a party. I’ll be four. I can’t wait to be four. I’ll be a big girl then. Aunt Sherry has flaming...
by Nicole | Sep 28, 2021 | Children's Tales
From The Play’s the Thing Children’s Series This is an easy-to-read series for emergent readers. Written as short plays, it encourages parents and children to read together, each taking a role, to make learning to read an enjoyable collaboration. ...
by Nicole | Sep 28, 2021 | Notes from Kosovo
While snow piles up in Vermont and New Hampshire, I have to buy a pair of sunglasses to shield my eyes from the bright Prishtina sun because it never occurred to me to pack my own. It is in the mid-fifties and I sweat a bit under the scarf and winter coat that I...
by Nicole | Sep 15, 2021 | Outlook
It’s Only a Game I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group. Peggy MacIntosh, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, 1988 I entered class that day with a bounce in my gait. My...
