When we moved into our current home back in 2000, a husband, wife, and their tween daughter lived next door. Our homes are in a planned community that was part of Roosevelt’s New Deal plan. Some of the houses were made of brick, some of cinderblock, and a few, like ours, were deemed temporary housing…
How to be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi is out of stock at Amazon. And Bookshop. And Barnes & Noble. This is awesome… I hope. I hope the book is read by white people, then passed to another white person. I hope these copies are read by a white mom and then her husband reads…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by courtney (courn) ahn (@courtneyahndesign) on Feb 26, 2020 at 7:03pm PST This week… but let’s be honest, it was like any other week in America, it just…
It’s a cruel, cruel, cruel summer. Memorial Day weekend is usually spent at our neighborhood pool, but right now it’s looking exactly like the previous weekend and the one before that. School ends in two weeks and I am grateful I dropped the ball with signing our daughter up for summer camps this season and…
Funny how I keep thinking about bookcases but struggle to read a single chapter. My mind has had a hard time focusing this week, but when it gets itself into the right zone, it’s all systems go. I’m trying to figure out ways to make those zones happen more often, and the best is to…
We always knew we would send our child to public schools. By chance (or us buying a “starter home” in 2000 that we still live in and adore) we moved back to the same county where my husband and I attended public school. We had mixed public school experiences, mine more positive than my husband’s,…
For most of America, we’ve been in lockdown since the second week of March, and now we’re in the first week of May. Some parts of the country are opening up, but I plan on staying in place even if my state lifts shelter in place orders because I know this virus isn’t over, we…
Generosity has the power to unite and heal communities in good times and bad. A global threat like COVID-19 touches every person on the planet, and it presents an opportunity to come together as a global community. #GivingTuesdayNow is a new global day of giving and unity that will take place on May 5, 2020…
At my old job, I worked for nine years in the same department. I worked my way up to a point where I had a staff of individuals I trained to be able to do whatever I delegated to them. We trusted one another, we knew our jobs, we cared about our performance and our…