Month: June 2020
I think I’m starting to understand
Here in Madison, on Tuesday evening about dinner time, a Black man went into a Capitol Square restaurant with a bullhorn and a baseball bat, saying basically, “I’m here to F**k you up”, and when he got arrested, other protesters got violent and eventually pulled down the Forward statue, and Hans Christian Heg, who was … [Read more…]
Open, closed ….
It’s kinda hard to know what is happening … Since we live in a country, and a state, with no consistent pandemic policies, stuff’s open, stuff’s closed, a fall spike (or even August) of Covid-19 cases is predicted, and there are lots of headlines now about numbers of sick people going up. Last week, University … [Read more…]
Don’t get fooled again
And, start listening to Black people. A while ago, probably at least five years, maybe six, because it was when he was living in Chicago and that was 2013-2017, I bought my son Al the Thug Kitchen Cookbook. I naively, unawarely, no doubt, thought it seemed suited to his sensibilities, as a young, hip, white … [Read more…]
Perchance to dream
So, I, like lots of other people now, have been having trouble sleeping – although I have not been a good sleeper since menopause, and normally get up every two hours. The problem now is that I often can’t fall back asleep, and when I do I often crash out hard for 15-30 minutes and … [Read more…]
Not going back
I took off the week of June 1-June 7 for posting my own content, and tried to promote voices of people of color. Today I kept thinking about going back over the week, and doing my normal food related posts, and know what? I’m not going back. Just doesn’t seem to matter right now what … [Read more…]