My Thoughts on Critical Race Theory

There is a huge difference between teaching honest history, and “critical race theory.” Honest history should include the enslavement of Black people, what happened to Native Americans, the confinement of Japanese Americans during WWII, Irish persecution in the 1800’s (just a very few examples of many). It should include the discrimination and mistreatment of anyone…

I am grateful for Bear Lake Schools.

#ProjectZen #Day8 #GratitudeProject   Day 8 of my gratitude project has me walking the halls of my school, where I attended Kindergarten through High School. I’m also frustrated that so many years later, names escape me, despite some of these people having a huge impact on me, and shaping my young mind. I feel compelled…

I am grateful for PBS.

#ProjectZen #Day5 #GratitudeProject Perhaps I am becoming a grouchy fuddy-duddy (or maybe I have always been one). What passes as popular television viewing at the moment, turns my brain to absolute mush. I just cannot embrace scripted and shallow “reality TV” and find it disheartening that our lowest common denominators as a society are reflected…