I heard mention the other day of the concept of “becoming a hollow bone.” I did a bit of internet research and found that Frank Fools Crow, a revered Lakota Holy Man, said in his work as a healer, he became like a hollow bone in order to be a source for all creation to...
I don’t often re-run posts, but given the uptick of hate crimes against refugees, immigrants, and other marginalized groups, it felt important to reprint this post from September of 2015. When I was in college, I befriended a girl whose family members were refugees from Laos. She went by the name of Jenny because her...
Not to wax political, but it’s almost impossible for me not to talk about censorship this week. As many of my author friends are blogging about Banned Books Week, I’ve been taking note of a different type of censorship. Recently, high school students and teachers in several Denver schools walked out to protest a school...