Cultural Exogamy … a fancy way of saying Interracial Marriage
First, a shout out to the Internet. Really, where else can you type in “Interracial Marriage” and learn that it has a very scientific name?? I love learning! OK, now that I got that out of my system, back to the topic at hand. Welcome to posting #2 in my series on Race. For those who don’t know me personally, I’m the product of an Interracial Marriage and find the practice to be simply despicable…it produces very strange children…wait. Maybe it’s not so bad. Let’s resta
Caution – Children At Play!
As a parent I find my children fascinating—most parents do. But for me, it’s a little different in that I’ve found children fascinating my entire life. I’ve been told I have an old soul, and would buy into that given that I always felt older somehow than my peers. Now, I find children fascinating in so many ways, but in particular when they are playing. I like nothing more than to sit in a room separate from the kids and just listen to what they say and do. It provides an
Patience
We’ve all heard the saying “Patience is a virtue.” Well, whenever I hear someone say that, my immediate thought is “Too bad I’m not virtuous.” Ba-dum-dum. I know, it’s a VERY old joke, yet it still pops into my head without missing a beat. The fact of the matter is that Patience does not come easily to most of us. I think humans are naturally impatient—or at least we are now. Was humankind always this way? Without a time machine I cannot say definitively, but I would gu
