The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: diversity

  • Go Where Everyone Is Welcome

    How do we choose our attitudes, political views, and convictions? I’ve been thinking a lot about that lately. It is not unusual these days to encounter people with beliefs that fly in the face of irrefutable facts, and veer sharply away from the magnetic north of any rational moral compass. It stuns me that so…

  • Newsflash: Your Kids Aren’t That Fragile

    Stop using false childhood fragility in order to try to force your agenda on the world.

  • For the Love of Screaming Hairy Armadillos

    Really. This is an actual thing.

  • Help Broaden a Child’s Horizons: A Diverse Book List

    Scroll down for the highlighted book list!

  • My Blog through the Eyes of Others

    Rereading things from the perspective of someone else.

  • The Cultural Iceberg

    It’s amazing how different we are, deep down.

  • Cruise Ship Feudalism

    The first time I was called madame it made me blink.

  • Cultural Traditions

    New experiences give us a diverse palette with which to paint our lives.

  • Shaping Your Life

    When all is said and done, your life will be what you make of it.

  • Don’t Compare. Contrast!

    A lot of women in America (and, I’m sure, in other places as well) are trained from practically birth to compare themselves to others and find themselves wanting. We can’t live up to those photoshopped models in the fashion magazines. How many of us look in the mirror and are unsatisfied with what we see? I…