My husband booked us at the Jen Hotel in Singapore when I helped my daughter move into her dorm room at National University of Singapore (NUS). It’s part of the Shangri La hotel company and located very centrally in Orchard Gateway. We discovered that we were right next door to the subway and across the…
Join us on January 25th, Read Your World Day 2024 Virtual Party 9 pm EST We will be giving away book bundles every ten minutes. Sign up here. Join us by registering for our Virtual Party event here or click on the image above. The questions for our virtual…
Children with developmental delays may stand to gain significantly from the integration of primitive reflex exercises. Primitive reflexes are involuntary movements that are observed in infants as a part of their early neurological development. These reflex movements are essential for survival and developmental milestones in the first few months of life. Typically, as a child…
Vanessa from Families Embracing Diversity hosted a conference, and she sent out a newsletter about my session: Today I want to share the recording/transcripts of one of the interviews from the conference with you. This session was about standing up to racism in your community with author and activist Mia Wenjen. There is SO much insight…
Today, I wanted to look at the Civil Rights Movement told through art and children’s books. Both are powerful communication tools both to educate and as a means to connect emotionally with what happened. Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by Jonah Winter and Shane W. Evans…
A sacred site, carrying the powerful mana of 23 interred Aliʻi chiefs, the Puʻuhonua and Royal Grounds were used by the Hawaiians for centuries. My oldest daughter had visited Puuhonua o Honaunau, Place of Refuge, as part of her RISD class this past January, and my middle daughter kept pestering her to take us here….
Black Joy is not … dismissing or creating an ‘alternate’ black narrative that ignores the realities of our collective pain; rather, it is about holding the pain and injustice…in tension with the joy we experience. It’s about using that joy as an entry into understanding the oppressive forces we navigate through as a means to…