In 2012, I was in a moment of transition and feeling a little lost. Seeking a project, I decided to beautify the large concrete slab that is my driveway. The image that came to mind was a labyrinth, a visually attractive image that would support contemplation. Although “labyrinth” and “maze” are used interchangeably in everyday […]
1. Articulate an objective (just like you did for every course you taught over the past 30 years). 2. Gather together an amazing event support team. Coordinate through Zoom meetings and email chains. 3. Pick a location that reflects your community engagement and has stunning views of the Pacific Ocean, order tacos from Super Cucas
What a delight that my first book festival was the Virginia Festival of the Book! I was in my hometown of Charlottesville at the festival my mother loved to attend, presenting on the grounds of the university where my father was on faculty for decades and where I worked in the 1990’s when I started
It was wonderful to be selected by Representative Salud Carbajal as a 2019 Congressional Woman of the Year for the California 24th District for the work I do on LGBT issues. Here’s what I said when I received the award. If you read or watch to the end, you’ll know what to ask me to
My hometown has become a hashtag. I grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia in the 1970’s and 80’s. It was a quiet, Southern college town. My biracial family moved there in 1968; only a year earlier the marriage of my Chinese-American mother and New York Jew father would not have been legal in Virginia, but I