My Year of Reading—2020 A highlight of the pandemic for me has been the opportunity to read many books, more than usual. I really went to...

Reading Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi by Sonja Franeta I’ve been reading instead of demonstrating. It’s not that I’ve missed it but I am getting...

12 Queer Books (this year's reading) by Sonja Franeta For quarantine time, here are some lesbian-themed books that I highly recommend,...

Today, Columbus Day is being celebrated in Spain—the colonization of the Americas. The lost Spanish empire. Why is Christopher Columbus,...

My nephew, James Camali, is finishing up his movie. It’s called The Mental State. It’s about a teenage boy in the rural South who...

My nephew, James Camali, is finishing up his movie. It’s called The Mental State. It’s about a teenage boy in the rural South who...

Cover Up “We are all African!” said a blond-haired blue-eyed professor named Spencer Wells, a geneticist and anthropologist. He had been...

I just finished reading The Raven's Children by Yulia Yakovleva and I found many reasons to recommend this book to both young people and...

Oct. 3, 2018 My sister Monika died yesterday in Germany. She was 75, the child of my father during his imprisonment in World War II. I...

Sometimes I fall asleep with my cat’s head under my chin. It is his idea. For some reason he likes that. He likes it when I am lying on...