Today is only the second day of summer school and I am already ready to quite. Our summer school runs 5 weeks and there are two classes per day--each being approx 2 1/2 hours long. I am teaching freshman English. My first class is a dream. They are quiet and they do all their work … Continue reading UGH!

When does my family (myself, hubby and soon to arrive home baby) become first? Not in the day to day business of living--that one is easy. But as father's day approaches, we face yet again, family obligation vs. what we would do. I love my family and I have a commitment to them, but I … Continue reading Balancing Act

For this year's World Cup. Go USA. Congrats to Germany as they win their opener. I love soccer. Sometimes this countries dismissal of the most popular game in the world, makes me sorry that I don't live somewhere else the reveres the game. It is everyman's game. Ghana is in the world cup for the … Continue reading All the World’s a Stage

After my post yesterday I did a lot of thinking. I was talking to hubby about it yesterday and shared the story of my professors South African husband who didn't understand the whole ethnic classifications. We, meaning the US, have this classification to track the different groups. Well, why? Why do we have to keep … Continue reading Why the need to Track

Genetically there is only one--the Human Race. There is not genetic difference between those of us here in the cushy US and those indigenous people of rural Africa, South America, or Indonesia. Yet our society acts as if there is. A Race Literacy Quiz was posted on one of the ethiopadopt message board--http://www.newsreel.org/guides/race/quiz.htm. It was … Continue reading RACE