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Uncle Pearl
My maternal grandmother passed away last year. She was 101. She didn’t tell me many stories when I…
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Studying Ancestors: getting beyond birth dates and grave sites
In September 1908, at 30 years old, in rural Kentucky, my great-grandmother had her first child, a son, Walter. He…
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Rethinking “indigenous” & DNA results
When Ancestry.com said that most of my DNA was a match with the people of Scotland and Ireland,…
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Calls for civility
We call lunch counter protests civil disobedience, but they weren’t seen at all as civil by most white…
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silence is privilege
You were silent when he called immigrants rapists. You were silent when he used vile terms to describe…
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Travel, food and pain
I’ve got two May episodes of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown recorded on my DVR. I record most of…
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Taking up space
So as my patient apologized to me for the inches of her waist and the heaviness of her…
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Frenemies & tall poppies
Among the many, many things I haven’t figured out in my 50 plus years on Earth is the…
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