Category Archives: Reading
The Well Garden Mind
The Well Garden Mind Rediscovering nature in the modern world by Sue Stuart- Smith (2020, 286 pages). If you judge a book by its cover, you may think that The Well-Gardened Mind is a self-help book in which Stuart-Smith argues how people … Continue reading
Zenzele a Letter to my Daughter
“The advice of the mother to Zenzele – as you go to new places, do not forget where you came from, respect your ancestors and culture, as that made you what you are. Assimilation in a new place should not … Continue reading
Enhancing Kids’ Social Skills
With the holidays approaching, TikTok has been serving me an endless stream of toy ads, but one made me stop scrolling. It was an ad for video walkie-talkies, basically FaceTime screens. My first thought was “Oh, my children would love … Continue reading
The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture (2008, 206 pages) by Randy Pausch. I read this book years ago. I didn’t remember it all when I picked it up again, but the convertible story has always stuck with me. It is a story in which … Continue reading
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage (1997, 224 pages) Pearl Cleage packed her debut novel with fierce love for community, loyalty, purposeful living, intentional mentoring, self-care, and a whole lot of Black Girl Magic before we’d given … Continue reading
Real Life of an MSW 