When planning your first on your own St. Patrick’s Day party, you look up the appropriate spelling of “St. Paddy’s Day.” Your mom emails you corned beef and cabbage recipes. At mass on Sunday, the bishop serving as priest tells the...
The last thing that I thought I would have to think about on December 31, 2016, is mixed love. Well, that’s not true. I think about mixed love a lot because it’s one of my faves. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the last thing I thought I...
I once went out with this brown guy. We were sipping tea (literally, although perhaps also the way the kids mean it) when we started talking about race in America. He’s Arab and we had met through black friends with whom I had enjoyed many impromptu Social...
