Happy New Year! Here’s hoping we can reclaim our democracy this year. We sure are trying, so if you live outside of the United States and are wondering what the heck is going on in this country, so are we … and we’re doing our best to keep up with the daily chaos. There are more of us who are pro-democracy, pro-international order and peacekeeping, and pro-rule of law, but you may not be able…
Happy Holidays, everyone! Over the past couple of weeks, I have been working on a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle. I never thought of myself as a puzzle person, so this is unusual for me. How did I get here? I blame work. In the office, we have a square table surrounded on two sides by booth-like seats. One of our staff members brought in a puzzle and plopped it on the table for everyone to do…
A quick post for today. I went with several family members to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis yesterday. It was a free children’s day, so there were multiple activities set up for kids throughout the museum. We started out with one of the museum’s current exhibits, Love Language by Dyani White Hawk. The artist’s ancestry is Lakota and European American and her multidisciplinary work is a mesmerizing blend of cultures, with her Native heritage…