My dark skinned 13 year old (white dad and Indian mom) came home from school recently and asked if I knew that black people called white people "Cracker". I laughed and told her that, in fact, I'd been called as much many times. Her inquisitive wrinkled eye brows turned to a giggle as she said, "guess that makes me a 'Graham Cracker' ".
Ode to Winter 2014
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Blankets of snow, silver, blue and white
remove the lost Summer from our sight
and pave a path for Demeter's grief
for six long months there'll be no relief...
Peppers Only
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I was dreading the whole Indian event, like most of them. The only white
guy in a hall of Gujurati speaking folks where food that set my digestive
system o...
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