tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39412537594153821632024-03-11T21:51:25.883-07:00Bread and RosesMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.comBlogger356125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-48356894116806805242021-01-01T16:00:00.000-08:002021-01-01T16:00:24.330-08:002020 in Review<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRKLjkqzMPJ0jR1U_4TFxfNmEMG-2zSARKtV-9eQk4hRLUz9In7PXO10g8X7jCmSUszoio7vUqICAKTGzP0cfnvZue77_9jUfMLMaqwwM8S7j5-AFHrDkwrW5lbNddZ-H9qD7nBHX04mQa/s2048/IMG_20200101_133051044.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRKLjkqzMPJ0jR1U_4TFxfNmEMG-2zSARKtV-9eQk4hRLUz9In7PXO10g8X7jCmSUszoio7vUqICAKTGzP0cfnvZue77_9jUfMLMaqwwM8S7j5-AFHrDkwrW5lbNddZ-H9qD7nBHX04mQa/s320/IMG_20200101_133051044.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Jan: We started 2019 with the traditional cornbread, black eyed peas, and greens-for all the good it did us.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSu2n32BTLsQ5UygqiAnVPxw1cS427kKhyphenhyphenTJiNlmVGlgge4X5tOm_Ve-hAxfumI3_rHffBIkMXnb5GW8sCDRXpCy6sKkmJvR8E2IurgawQxIgkvTC8AICEWBd0MJhjiBXUY5CSqGQi0vQ6/s1280/IMG_7067.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSu2n32BTLsQ5UygqiAnVPxw1cS427kKhyphenhyphenTJiNlmVGlgge4X5tOm_Ve-hAxfumI3_rHffBIkMXnb5GW8sCDRXpCy6sKkmJvR8E2IurgawQxIgkvTC8AICEWBd0MJhjiBXUY5CSqGQi0vQ6/s320/IMG_7067.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZSIGaN3MDd4EOx2VIFoN92zx3gcpmqt-2xg8ymEz15ftQCb0r9H12_zLGRwFiVXiZ5IXsx7iego-s0uTGm0L6X1zGhjjHMnDJpOEoDoLWd-wqufAHkbkozVGmfRK-sLuAGgZXsEiV0YUX/s2048/IMG_20200206_134327377.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1932" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZSIGaN3MDd4EOx2VIFoN92zx3gcpmqt-2xg8ymEz15ftQCb0r9H12_zLGRwFiVXiZ5IXsx7iego-s0uTGm0L6X1zGhjjHMnDJpOEoDoLWd-wqufAHkbkozVGmfRK-sLuAGgZXsEiV0YUX/s320/IMG_20200206_134327377.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsJkSxj6E8CnOUweYs0wyOMA9mH-9NtT37mxr-0oDgJZqN10OqMsOAmMpVG63DMw0Jq1Q5scGwumo5CPwelKNIKFno8BoRLxq6HOCSFxGiTNipqsL7g2j9nZRmaNRb8OerLXoOzvYv_w8O/s2048/IMG_20200214_192300350+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1601" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsJkSxj6E8CnOUweYs0wyOMA9mH-9NtT37mxr-0oDgJZqN10OqMsOAmMpVG63DMw0Jq1Q5scGwumo5CPwelKNIKFno8BoRLxq6HOCSFxGiTNipqsL7g2j9nZRmaNRb8OerLXoOzvYv_w8O/s320/IMG_20200214_192300350+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKQOL9YYF_ORl7wSIcZaA0M4a7dslSWinBgfMApJu8lpR2_-SWPXfI7rsRHmQCu-HUMby1y37FcLnFQLZNrgDutnnMkr5dllxy90xZzD6ebB8eNX6Ktl6Ea89uzCbnmY6Dm4dxBfetr6QQ/s2048/IMG_20200221_141804056.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKQOL9YYF_ORl7wSIcZaA0M4a7dslSWinBgfMApJu8lpR2_-SWPXfI7rsRHmQCu-HUMby1y37FcLnFQLZNrgDutnnMkr5dllxy90xZzD6ebB8eNX6Ktl6Ea89uzCbnmY6Dm4dxBfetr6QQ/s320/IMG_20200221_141804056.jpg" /></a></div><p>Feb: The end of the old times. I testified at the RI statehouse for parentage equality yet again. We went to shany sing and took the bus home. We went to Boston to visit the aquarium and see friends, then LB got a flu-like virus that was bad enough that her ped prescribed tamiflu while waiting for results. It was not the flu (eek).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">March: I had started prepping in late Feb, but by March we were getting ready for whatever was coming, thinking it would be up to a month. We hung out with friends the Friday before the week of St Patricks Day and then locked down.</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaW98PFHQ5SJh5B_CrPL4lu3DzLZUuaBlqxLY_Z_JvzGxA-JCxDTWIuF3Ly1gtXUK_otRKXPi2On8aOD6LhbcknXO5xSpdJuwbXOxS15qnqbI1Bi7l35SQIys0wybKYUVk_5VJULD8COGC/s1600/IMG_20200320_140548321_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaW98PFHQ5SJh5B_CrPL4lu3DzLZUuaBlqxLY_Z_JvzGxA-JCxDTWIuF3Ly1gtXUK_otRKXPi2On8aOD6LhbcknXO5xSpdJuwbXOxS15qnqbI1Bi7l35SQIys0wybKYUVk_5VJULD8COGC/s320/IMG_20200320_140548321_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;">Blogging about groceries. I think this was twenty-something dollars. Those organic raspberries were 99cents each and delicious! I made the smitten kitchen corn soup and it was really good. In the bag are mushrooms. I've been eating a lot of potatoes lately and they make me happy.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQdsOpFM90aRYIihbPYbGQWnczbiofhXGqbNn5kLLkNOVVJ6jkJj-SM8e6p-eZOEvLUKy29R3V6QDlLFYhZmkc28wZ-OVRed6duzm4BAw6iRLQZxFn4sUDv-gXPwRVbEve7wECyV-nXOZY/s2048/IMG_20201005_112219400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQdsOpFM90aRYIihbPYbGQWnczbiofhXGqbNn5kLLkNOVVJ6jkJj-SM8e6p-eZOEvLUKy29R3V6QDlLFYhZmkc28wZ-OVRed6duzm4BAw6iRLQZxFn4sUDv-gXPwRVbEve7wECyV-nXOZY/s320/IMG_20201005_112219400.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This trip was about $60, there is ground beef in the containers and it wasn't cheap. I got some smoked paprika, which isn't something I've ever cooked with but it smells amazing. LB's new favorite dinner is pasta and chicken with pesto. I got that expensive bag of pumpkin seeds which apparently she doesn't like (super food!).</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMk8RIb7Z84kdLCT89NFkMVwWfszJsPWs5H5dizMNAn6ZOBc375LFkIgJSZ3zg3p6oPpKm3fVvojASIcHq6cLk1G3jamPRaxWMExl2L76uH5YfH446OOtA294x0r9rdF5wv041WT0mxP1m/s2048/IMG_20201005_141837844+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1398" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMk8RIb7Z84kdLCT89NFkMVwWfszJsPWs5H5dizMNAn6ZOBc375LFkIgJSZ3zg3p6oPpKm3fVvojASIcHq6cLk1G3jamPRaxWMExl2L76uH5YfH446OOtA294x0r9rdF5wv041WT0mxP1m/s320/IMG_20201005_141837844+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div><br /> My neighborhood has basically no political signs for the presidential race, although there were signs all over before the presidential race in the DR this past summer. Everything I do now is managing anxiety.<p></p>Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-54434954877417440942020-09-06T12:35:00.002-07:002020-09-06T12:35:37.083-07:00Waiting<p> I had the most apocalyptic dream a week ago. I was standing on a street at night in a crowd of people and someone started saying the Pledge. I thought, "oh, shit. Here we go." I moved through the crowd and kneeled at the edge facing out on the street. There were people on either side of me also kneeling and we were waiting for whatever was coming. I'd stashed LB someplace safe, but as I looked up, I saw kids and realized she was out there with us. "Who brought the kids, they aren't supposed to be here!" Then there was just chaos.</p><p>I've been reading a lot of books about occupied Europe. The Pandemic has made me understand better how boring it is to live through a crisis. How much you operate without the information you need. The books have given me more sympathy for the people who do nothing in the face of evil. We are all just trying to get through, and even your biggest sacrifice can be the tiniest and most invisible fluttering of a moth's wing. Right now, it's just the waiting and hoping I'm ready and we are all ready.</p><p>Pictures:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cat on Leash</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHv_eJ8z3fhR0gcVrnjFKtwOJfID8lPlK8o6jyD2NuKeX7VsSmNTEmzjFi7ffZR5x-YKgIfiXevNL3EA_Qm7UUa4DglvW38KD9lp6M9H1MhQmfayiQkywW3asnkI8Vmy-6rtj1rVQhCeBr/s2048/IMG_20200801_114949949_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHv_eJ8z3fhR0gcVrnjFKtwOJfID8lPlK8o6jyD2NuKeX7VsSmNTEmzjFi7ffZR5x-YKgIfiXevNL3EA_Qm7UUa4DglvW38KD9lp6M9H1MhQmfayiQkywW3asnkI8Vmy-6rtj1rVQhCeBr/s320/IMG_20200801_114949949_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span> <br /></span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Feral children</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Maybe that was just me and a bunch of Christian ladies with large families.<br />
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$126.00 is a lot for me for one grocery trip! In the before time, I would probably spend $60 during my weekly grocery trip and buy multiples of sale items, with the understanding that I could pick up items I couldn't fit into the big trip at another time. Now it's supermarket sweep. $7.00 for a pound of ground beef is probably an okay price if this was eating sustainably, but when I made my last trip to the butcher in early March, I got the 10lbs for $20 deal. LB asked for cashews, rice cakes, and Oui yogurts ($1.49/per!) and I always try to buy her extra snacky stuff to keep her busy.<br />
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I hit the limit of what I can carry with this trip, and that's taking the bus. I walked 1.5 miles to the store, and then once I have my groceries it's a couple blocks to the bus and another couple blocks from the bus home. I have an unreasonable hatred of taking the bus to or from the grocery store, but our current situation is making me really thankful for the option. Here, compliance with the Governor's order to wear masks in stores and one public transit seems to be about 99.9% this weekend was the first time I saw a guy duck into a convenience store with no mask, I didn't stick around to see what happened after that.<br />
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I'm so thankful for my closest bodega, although I haven't been in since the end of March. They don't have everything I want (and definitely not everything LB wants) but they have everything we need, including a full meat counter. They were also the first store in the area I saw that had a travel path mapped out on the floor. I need to get back to my regular shopping.<br />
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As of today, I see that both shipping places near my house are open-not that I personally need to ship anything to the Dominican Republic, but I like the signs of normalcy:<br />
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Chinese restaurant near my house is also open. They closed in mid-March even though they are carry out and could still operate legally. I was worried that they were afraid of being targeted for their national origin. Glad to see them open, and at first they had a pretty busted set up with plastic sheeting between workers and customers, but now they have a nice glass barrier:<br />
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From my work, which includes a few businesses and organizations and the rest is work/live units for artists. I miss my landlords!<br />
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Now I can hear the ice cream truck.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-2790358652475233382020-05-14T07:52:00.001-07:002020-05-14T07:52:47.454-07:00Washington Park LifeI'm having a pessimistic day. Yesterday RI released information about testing at different sites throughout the state. Wealthier towns are only reporting 3-4% positive rates. The site closest to my house is reporting a 35% positive rate. So while RI looks good overall, high rate of testing with an average of >10% that's masking the devastatingly high rates of positives in poor majority Latino neighborhoods. It's frustrating that even with a really strong public health team that takes health disparities and racism seriously, here we are.<br />
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The good stuff is that I had the foresight to move a few blocks from a lovely 427 acre park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (the Central Park guy). After being closed for about a month, the park is back open and I've seen a little turtle, a huge turtle, a heron, an oriole, a guy walking a hedgehog, a family in star wars costumes doing a photoshoot.<br />
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[I'm sharing on this blog things I wouldn't post on social media because it might be insensitive . Many people are struggling right now and they don't want to see pics of my extensive shopping trips. I get that. I also love seeing pictures of what people are buying in making. If you don't, I won't make you look!] Americans of means are in crisis. What the f do you mean there is no flour? Flour! This morning was the first time I've been at big supermarket in a couple months. I did a peapod order on Feb 29th and was worried then that I wouldn't get a spot. I had a 10lb bag of King Arthur flour in my cart and then put it back because it seemed like crazy talk. What is there going to be a nationwide flour shortage?!<br />
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So now I'm carefully rationing my last 5lb bag and stretching it with a bag of gluten-free baking mix and a bag of cornmeal. So far I've baked multiple batches of corn muffins and popovers and one batch each of morning glory muffins and brownies. I also made red velvet cupcakes for my birthday.<br />
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In addition to my peapod order (lots of canned beans, tomatoes, and shelf-stable milk, which is all getting used at quick clip and pesto and capers and such), I went to the butcher and bought 10lbs of ground beef, 5lbs of sirloin flap, 5lbs of chicken breast, a whole chicken, a dominican salami, a pack of bacon, and 2lbs of shrimp). I did a big shop at my local asian supermarket (like h-mart) and got curry pastes, rice noodles, frozen dumplings, fish sauce, lots of garlic and ginger and a napa cabbage), mochi-all the essentials.<br />
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Since then I've gotten a couple local food deliveries, which is great for dairy, apples, and greens. I've gone to a locally owned food coop that has a good mix of nice fruits and vegetables and staples (that's where I got the gluten-free mix). My goal for today's trip was to get some basics and some items specifically requested by LB (corndogs! rufffled potato chips! ice cream cones! pepperoni!). The fresh vegetables were looking pretty sparse (no fresh spinach, cilantro, or parsley, limited lettuce) but I got all the things on my list. And, maybe I should add that I still don't have a car, and I'm avoiding public transit, so this was a walking trip. It's about 1.5 miles to the big grocery store. This trip was definitely hitting the limit of what I can carry!<br />
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In terms of thinking about others with fewer resources, I've been donating to a few community-based mutual aid orgs. Food banks are good too, but I think lots of people are giving to them. With mutual aid, I feel like the money gets to people quicker, many times through cash apps, and often as cash so people can get what they want and need. I also went through my cupboards and donated a couple boxes of things we were very unlikely to use to our neighborhood free table (snacks now out of favor, canned fruit with artificial sweetner, pie fillings, some of those boxes of Life cereal that I bought on sale when LB was really into it and now she isn't).<br />
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The first stash-only things still out on the table are the coffee and dehydrated potato shreds<br />
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Kimchi!<br />
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First biscuit, they were not rich and flaky like I wanted and I forgot cream of tartar again!<br />
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Dumplings, now eaten!<br />
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Local potatoes shredded, yum!<br />
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-55843531792694334092020-04-26T08:48:00.000-07:002020-04-26T10:27:29.358-07:002019 in ReviewThe word people seem to be using for 2019 is chaotic. And that seems true enough. I finally got a new phone with a battery that doesn't constantly die. My life is so much better, but I need to retrieve a bunch of pictures, so I'll see what I've got to work with. Two or three big things happened this year:<br />
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LB and I joined a class action lawsuit. <a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2019/1212/Rhode-Island-lawsuit-Students-sue-for-the-right-to-learn-civics?j=245542&sfmc_sub=17808498&l=1223_HTML&u=8826598&mid=10979696&jb=4&cmpid=ema:EqualEd:20191212&src=newsletter&cmpid=shared-email">Here's an article </a>with a picture of us and brief quote.<br />
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We spent a bunch of time at the RI Statehouse fighting for equal parentage rights-and I became publicly gay <a href="https://www.providencejournal.com/opinion/20190628/letter-moira-hinderer-bill-to-reform-treatment-of-lgbtq-parents-doesnt-need-more-study">here </a>and <a href="https://upriseri.com/2019-06-26-moira-hinderer/">here</a>.<br />
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I bought us a house! It's a little ranch on the wrong side of town with yellow siding and brown trim and I love it.<br />
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We got a kitten named Cookie, he is now 10lbs and a wild man.<br />
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*Clearly, I started this post months ago. I no longer remember what was chaotic about 2019. Those were the good old days. It was looking like the legislation I was working on would work in this session, but now the legislature isn't meeting. Good news in a federal court ruling on a Detroit right to education case. More on all of that later, now just to get through quarantine.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-70288365542298386952020-04-25T08:18:00.002-07:002020-04-25T08:18:54.824-07:00What we are talking about/and notRI is talking about how many pushups the Governor can do in a skirt (12?, 15?) and whether Nibbles Woodaway (aka the Big Blue Bug) is really wearing a surgical mask (sadly, no, just photoshop), and how mad we are at the Mayor for closing the parks (more just sad, for me).<br />
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What we haven't been talking about as much as one might think: 180,000 workers out of a pre-Pandemic total of maybe 530,000 workers have filed for unemployment. Nobody can even muster up a "We're #1!" like we did in the old days when our 1st in the nation unemployment was around 11%. It's like we are in this collective fugue state.<br />
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I have a job. I'm thankful to have a job. My whole team is still employed. When I walk down the streets of downtown Providence past every closed restaurant and coffee shop, and even some Dunkins, I remember every time my dad got laid off.<br />
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The only person who is talking about RI being trapped between two COVID hotspots, NYC and Boston, is some lady at a White House briefing. Here we don't really talk about that. The state cracked down fast on wealthy people going to their summer homes in Newport and other places coastal, staties went house to house telling people with out of state plates to quarantine. But, the hardest-hit place in the state is Providence. Most people here have family and friends in NYC. In my neighborhood, which is majority Dominican, it's got to be at least 80%. I'm not saying it would be good to have cops going door to door here, but no one was warning people in the neighborhoods not to take the bus to New York, or to make their family members who decided to come here to ride it out quarantine for two weeks. Now, like other places, COVID is hitting hard among Latinos. There seems to be a demographic split where cases among whites are mostly elders in nursing homes, while cases among younger people are among people of color.<br />
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-31308815553996002612020-03-30T08:32:00.003-07:002020-03-30T08:32:42.335-07:00COVID Diaries day 14<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-offset-key="br2f6-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true">I'm so thankful for the crew working at Family Dollar on Broad St today AND seeing all the workers in maroon crocheted face masks while listening to multiple shoppers say "look, they have milk today!" was way more The Handmaid's Tale than I was prepared for. </span></span><span blockkey="br2f6" class="_5zk7" contentstate="c { "entityMap": [object Object], "blockMap": OrderedMap { "br2f6": c { "key": "br2f6", "type": "unstyled", "text": "I'm so thankful for the crew working at Family Dollar on Broad St today AND seeing all the workers in maroon crocheted face masks while 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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Today was the first day I've run errands in two weeks. I have been walking to work once a week to check the mail, but don't plan to go this week because I don't think going that often really qualifies as "essential."</span>Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-38800452425405848432019-04-21T15:52:00.001-07:002019-04-21T15:52:10.408-07:00Spring Tree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-16174311809456619042019-02-27T18:49:00.000-08:002019-02-27T18:49:07.735-08:00Winter LIfeI am tired. LB's bus comes ridiculously early. We need to be at the stop at 7:10, then she takes a scenic tour of Pawtucket and Central Falls before getting to school. I can't really complain because it would be a dick move if they picked up the kids in the wealthy part of town last, and sometimes it's good because I can get into work early. But up at 5:45 is bleary and prying LB out of bed for a 40 minute sprint to our leaving time is never fun.<br />
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This week several building unions have been out protesting a new building that is going up by my work and is not using union labor for the job. Work is already loud with young people laughing and chatting and the phone ringing, and lately, we also have pile driving and chant leading on a bullhorn. Things are hip and expensive here. So many $3 small cups of coffee and $8 or $10 sandwiches. It is hard to live without a decent wage.<br />
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I've been listening to a country music app with tons of stations. Weirdly, many of them seem to have French or German DJs which led to me listening to the top of the hour news update on R Kelly's newest inditement in German on a country station. Not that I speak German, but I guess R Kelly and inditement are universal words.<br />
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Last week we had an hour weather school delay that I didn't know about till we got to school. Not fun, but at least there's a diner nearby. Tomorrow we have a two-hour delay and I'm hoping we can make the most of it with the pretty great sledding hill by our house. This is the first year we've gone out on it because LB can be very fussy about cold and clothes, and it's been so fun.<br />
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-50887753103013854622019-01-20T14:34:00.002-08:002019-01-20T14:34:41.047-08:00City Life revisitedI guess the last time I posted last year there was a snow storm, and now there is a snow storm. I'm feeling very proud that I did my civic duty by scraping out the storm drain by my building. It's a slushy mess out there now, and is supposed to drop well below freezing tonight, so everything should be an icy mess tomorrow. LB is at her mommy's house, and I'm trying to figure out where to get snowed in.<br />
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What we're talking about:<br />
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<li>Is this how it ends? The USofA I mean. Nobody pays the bill so we slide away from the three branches, the Constitution, NOAA, GPS satellites, federal judges, taxes, highways.</li>
<li>How far away from the ocean should you buy a house if you'd like to live in that house for say 20 year+ and maybe even do something as inconceivable as hand it on down to your child.</li>
<li>SNAP was deposited on 1/20. It needs to last until 3/1 or maybe for the duration.</li>
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What are we teaching our WASP/C kids. I feel really lucky to live in a place where my kid interact with people of different cultures/races/ethnicities than her own every day. There are universal lessons of the be kind and do unto others as you would have them do unto you. In such a mixed place I've felt pushed to stress the skills you need when you are interacting with people who have different world views and different cultural practices.<br />
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Trying to do right by a white child as a white parent-I feel unmoored from culture which might lead me. For all the talk of white supremacy culture, as a parent I need something positive to offer my child. At a vigil for those murdered in the Pittsburgh synagogue, in a majority Jewish crowd, I was struck by the way that people were able to mourn together knowing the same prayers and the same songs. Go to any WASP/C protest and event and listen to people try to muddle through a song. What is there to offer a child. I push for "being chill"-that is accepting people as they are, not getting worked up about them doing things differently than you would, or looking different, or sounding different unless they are hurting another. Curiosity is good-tell me more, and I don't know anything about that will you share with me. Respect for what you don't understand.<br />
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A couple months ago, I attended a fundraiser at a bar, and as is customary around her the adults drank (and wrapped donated presents), and the kids ran wild, and we ate some pizza. The entertainment was a group of Algonquin drummers. Their music and singing filled the space, and the children all stopped and walked toward them, watching silently, a few dancing. Our kids recognize beauty and art, they respect the people and the world around when we let them, when we don't fill them with the fear and pride that pushes the rest of the world away.</div>
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-18404086220972468772019-01-20T12:20:00.000-08:002019-01-20T12:24:15.770-08:002018 in review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi1gWF49FZCjb6xzMCmwvKAz3e255j7ZHaNCYXcgUTyfYbJXzdLMDbaWkuW-5aAkJD2IgAOkkd_87g_qid2uQvSKx09H-tgG7ir9i6qKNIf1wwCds2HCQWChdXdqhOFYsGOWTCXocgG5xv/s1600/IMG_0501+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi1gWF49FZCjb6xzMCmwvKAz3e255j7ZHaNCYXcgUTyfYbJXzdLMDbaWkuW-5aAkJD2IgAOkkd_87g_qid2uQvSKx09H-tgG7ir9i6qKNIf1wwCds2HCQWChdXdqhOFYsGOWTCXocgG5xv/s320/IMG_0501+%25281%2529.JPG" width="320" /></a>We protested. Unfortunately an early morning protest in Warwick outside ICE offices surrounded by faith leaders was super stressful for LB and was at least a partial factor setting off a lot of anxiety. I'm still thankful that I can tell her, yes I will be here, no you won't go to jail, no I won't go to jail, no we won't be separated, so many people aren't that lucky.</div>
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Schools in Providence are off for today and tomorrow. Snow is coming down and visibility is about half a block. We are anticipating high winds and cold temps once the snow winds down this evening. Luckily we had good notice of the storm. I've been trying not to overbuy food in order to waste less, but that meant the only vegetables I had in the house yesterday morning were frozen peas and okra, and the only fruit was frozen blueberries, and no milk.<br />
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I beat the crowd on my morning shop, but then had to go to three more places after I picked up LB from school, because the first place was out of milk, and then I realized I had no flour for pizza dough. A friend posted a pic from my closest Whole Foods, at which the greens section was COMPLETELY emptied. I guess that's what happens when New Years resolutions meet blizzard. Three additional stores later, here we are ready for the storm:<br />
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(I don't know why I didn't post this when we actually had the big storm, but here you go, belatedly).Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-47207918312148398152018-01-01T06:29:00.001-08:002018-01-01T07:36:37.499-08:00Less than a year<br />
It's actually been less than a year since I last posted, so that's not so bad. I miss blogging being a thing like I miss having a tv channel that shows music videos. 2017 for me was a year of organizing (the political kind) and I went hard for about 9 months and then crashed. I was part of a successful campaign to pass a new ordinance on police accountability and transparency that goes into effect today, and a successful city council campaign to elect Nirva Lafortune. Two good things in a year of loss.<br />
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A friend suggested reflecting on 2017 by listing one good thing from each month, and here are mine:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">Jan-was an adult observer when 1000 local high school students walked out of class to the statehouse to protest the inauguration (absolute highlight of my year). If you watch the video in the link, there is a moment when a couple hundred students standing around by the statehouse see hundred more students marching up the street in front of the mall, realize how big the protest is going to be, and start running to meet them-all the adults were crying.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><a href="http://www.rifuture.org/student-walk-out-trump/">http://www.rifuture.org/student-walk-out-trump/</a></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.12px;">Feb-went to a blur of emergency meetings, met a lot of people</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><br /><br />March-walked into a dive bar with my daughter, walked out with a date<br /><br />April-hung out with a new mom friend like I remember my mom doing (taking the kids to IHOP on Saturday night)<br /><br />May-went with LB to a very raucous city council meeting where we got a first yes vote on a new police accountability ordinance </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><a href="http://www.rifuture.org/csa-turnout-city-hall/">http://www.rifuture.org/csa-turnout-city-hall/</a></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.12px;">June-went to Chicago for my diss advisors retirement</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.12px;">July-a week in Maine where junie ran wild with the island children</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.12px;">Aug-door knocked for our city council race, and Nirva Lafortune won by a lot!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">A friend was just blogging about intentions vs resolutions for New Years, and I like the improvisation involved in having a theme for the year that I then have to figure out how to live. I think my theme for this year needs to be health. Sitting at work/sitting in all those meetings/eating random potluck offerings/busing and ubering from one location to the next/on the computer all the time, all those things have been unkind to my body and sometimes my spirt. I'm lying in bed typing and my head hurts and my shoulders hurt and my back hurts. I've noticed that my balance has gotten so much worse this year, and I get up from the floor like an old person. I'm very lucky to be in good physical health, but I need to invest in what I've got instead of squandering it.</span></span>Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-53666986556086842022017-01-30T04:53:00.003-08:002017-01-30T13:32:13.073-08:00Dear Trump's America: I'm living your nightmare and you should too People here roll the windows down and turn the music up while they idle by the store, Kendrick Lamar fades into some old school Fugees doing "Killing Me Softly." We buy our popsicles at the corner store from a guy named Habib, who calls us both baby. My daughter goes to school with a majority of kids who are poor and brown, and she says the pledge of allegiance in Spanish (but only every other day). <br />
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The building where I work also houses a gay bar, a Mexican restaurant, and the print shop of a community arts organization. Various styles of Mexican music compete with Techno and the OomPah beat of the print presses, and the cacophony bubbles up through our floors. On election day, I bought a small coffee (for $4.00!) from a guy who in my memory has a small waxed moustache. The more your coffee costs, the slower your barista moves. As I crossed the alley back to work, a drag queen from the gay bar in the downstairs of my work building rasped: "Honey, you want to smoke some marijuana?" I politely declined, and she (I'm assuming that is the correct pronoun as this person was at the time in full drag) replied, "Sorry baby, I'm just so nervous!"<br />
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We ride the bus. Riders are many colors and they speak many languages. We riders work together so that the system can work for us. People shift as one for a man in a wheelchair, decide who will move for the lady with the cane, hoist kids and packages onto laps as the seats fill. One day LB had a horrible coughing fit after we ran for the bus, and the driver offered to stop and run into Dunkin' Donuts to get her a bottle of water. One night we stayed late at LB's school for Animal Adventure night. Afterwards we walked to our bus stop, which is in a worn working class neighborhood, on a busy potholed road. It was rainy and the bus was late. The only other person waiting was a youngish black man with lots of bags. We waited and waited, and he didn't seem to mind as LB encroached on his space as she leapt like a frog. He stepped away to smoke a cigarette and then moved back under the shelter. And, then he took two sharp steps toward us. My hand went automatically in front of LB, protecting her. He saw me, and motioned toward the roof of the bus shelter. He had been standing under a huge hole and the rain had gotten heavier-he had moved toward us to get out of the rain. I smiled at him-the smile of trying to ask for forgiveness. But I said only, "it's really starting to rain, I hope the bus comes soon." We are all in motion.<br />
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This is a city and cities hold poor people, and people with many different skin colors. We are a city that sits on indigenous land and indigenous people remain here, with the descendants of of white colonizers who fled here seeking religious freedom. We are a city dominated by immigrants, migrants, and refugees. I made a mental list of all the people LB I interact on a regular basis who were not born in the US:<br />
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my landlord<br />
many of our bus drivers<br />
teachers and staff at LB's school<br />
LB's fellow students<br />
coworkers<br />
the man who fixes our copier<br />
students at my work<br />
workers at several of my favorite downtown restaurants<br />
the bank teller who knows my name<br />
several of my doctors<br />
the owner of the place I go to get my eyebrows threaded<br />
the owners of the dry cleaner I use<br />
the guy who owns the Indian grocery<br />
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Without immigrants, migrants, and refugees our city would grind to a halt. They only thing we could count on is $4.00 coffees poured by guys with waxed moustaches. And, our life is good. We don't have a lot, but we have enough. We don't fear those who we know, even if they look different from us, speak different languages, and come from different places. And sometimes we do fear those we don't know, because they look different and move different and sound different. But, when we stop, we know that fear breaks us. We must learn to know each other. Vulnerability must be our strength. Love must be our strength. We must move together.<br />
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-46941782227168171532016-10-24T06:01:00.001-07:002016-10-24T06:01:03.752-07:00Post at the Wordpress site:<a href="https://lbbreadandroses.wordpress.com/2016/10/24/rich-douche-canoe-problems/">https://lbbreadandroses.wordpress.com/2016/10/24/rich-douche-canoe-problems/</a>Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-21140358883468575992016-10-15T15:42:00.002-07:002016-10-15T15:42:40.513-07:00Saturday Night Live<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Two weeks ago I realized I was running LB ragged on the weekends. One Saturday we had swim lesson, playdate, playdate at an African-American drumming festival, and a birthday party. In practice that involved a lot of "PUT YOUR SHOES ON NOW WE ARE GOING TO MISS OUR BUS WHY AREN'T YOUR SHOES ON!" And that's no way to live. So this week we kept it simple, went out to a live music event in the neighborhood last night, the pool heater is out of commission so no swim lesson, and one playdate. And now we've spent 5 hours hanging out in the house cleaning (me), watching shows (her), playing parcheesi and filling our bird feeder and then retrieving it when it fell off the building and coloring (both). Honestly, I feel a little restless but I think it's been a good chill out day. <br />
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I'm not married anymore and I live in a different place, but the biggest change in my life is that I've gone from a person with no real local friends who very rarely did stuff, to a person who often has plans 5 nights a week. Sometimes it's a little too much, but overall I feel energized. I like being around people. I'm nosy enough that I live being part of communities and getting all the news. And LB is shaping up to be a similar shy extrovert. Her absolute favorite thing is to play with friends.<br />
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Although I haven't captured all the moments on camera, we've established some rituals. We took the bus to Maine twice this summer. We went camping with friends in September, and last Monday we watched and marched in PRONK here in Providence. We didn't take the ferry to Newport or get to the beach at all. Next year, I need to be brave and try out one of the beach buses-it just seems like such a haul, and who wants to be stuck waiting for the bus when you are ready to leave the beach?<br />
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They need to have this splash pad open more hours. Twice we showed up just as they shut off the water, and once we actually made it to splash.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-15190633690122154692016-10-09T11:40:00.000-07:002016-10-09T11:40:08.070-07:00Trumping: the final countdown<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Should have known that Trump would bring me back to this blog after many long months. Today I slept in until noon. And woke up terrified, because I haven't done that in how many years? Ten? Today is rainy, I had only minimal plans for an amazing 24hrs+ and I'm scaling back even those.<br />
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As I've been blogging less, I've been living more. And it turns out that when you show up, people ask you to show up more. Now, my issue is finding balance. I realized at the end of last weekend that I'd been running LB relentlessly-surely we can manage swim lessons, followed by a playdate, followed by a playdate at a drumming performance, followed by a birthday party. And we got it all done, but with a lot of stern "put your shoes on NOW, we are going to miss the bus!" And for myself, I'm trying to figure out when I need quiet time vs. when I need activity. And, when I can drag LB around to another meeting and when I should just say no. Right now I'm missing an activist art build that probably would have been a lot of fun to lie in my bed and drink another coffee and write to blogland. <br />
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In LB land: five is awesome, so chatty, so stubborn, so capable, so not throwing a tantrum because someone else pulled the cord on the bus. She can swim! She can play well with friends. At home she plays weird pretend games and makes houses for her animals out of magnatiles, and we play parcheesi and neither of us know the rules. She started K at a nearby dual language charter school. Sometimes I wait with her for the local bus and think "we could be home by now." But, the teachers and support staff are absolutely lovely, she's making friends and seems to like it there, and I have no big complaints-and I am a complainer by nature.<br />
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I've been reading to my dystopian stuff, real and imagined. In non-fiction, I read Tim Tyson's Blood Done Sign My Name, which is a great read for race-liberal white folks. The fiction that is sticking in my head is The Mandibles (liked it, but at times it felt a little Ayn Rand), and Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower-I am traumatized and in love. Read this book! I actually paid cash money to order the next book and another trilogy she wrote. <br />
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Projects: I was supposed to be taking Spanish classes, but then I got a BOOK CONTRACT with a reputable university press. I am the worst ex-ac ever. <br />
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Work: out-of-control at the moment, but should calm down in a few weeks. I'm trying to keep my anxiety in control. <br />
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Politics: I've been doing some work with a local anti-racist group. I like them and it feels good to do. National politics: dear God. Glad to know that the protection of white pussy is still a motivating value in American politics? A million sighs...<br />
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Rhode Island has low self-esteem, which means Rhode Islanders love articles about how great Rhode Island is and how cool Providence is. I just read one, and a columnist from the Boston Globe opened with a story about being offered cocaine by a friendly college student in a Providence bar. Must we always be the local color-or as my friend used to say in college "my life is not performance art." <br />
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There are way worse places to live, but sometimes the living gets you down. A lovely stroll down historic Benefit Street on my way home from work has me clambering over the sidewalk buckled by tree roots, and don't even think about trying that will a stroller. Our teensy splash pad will only be open in July and August from 12-5 Monday through Saturday, if the city can scrap up the money. Other places seem like the splash pads run with milk and honey.<br />
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But I suppose LB doesn't care. Her soon to be school feels big to her even if if it feels claustrophobic to me, she gets to go to cool rock n roll birthday parties, pick out Skittles at the corner store, climb the tree in the park, dance to a hipster marching band in the middle of the street, roll slow balls down the candlepin bowling alley and watch the pinsetter handset the pins. <br />
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Like <a href="http://littlemonsterandmommies.blogspot.com/2016/05/spring-sports-this-little-blog-of-mine.html">Amanda</a>, I don't know where I'm going with this blog. I miss blogging being a thing, not for the readers, but for the call and response. But I do like having a place to organize my thoughts. I just need a scheme to make other people blog again.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-71387156994743250322016-04-03T13:16:00.002-07:002020-04-12T15:11:02.857-07:00April Snow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was born during an April blizzard. This morning I woke up and the sounds from outside were muffled, and when I opened the curtain it was snowy. LB and I got to the pool under bright blue skies between the snow squalls. Each hour we've had gray skies and blowing snow, followed by bright sun and no snow. We are supposed to get a few more inches tomorrow morning.<br />
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On Friday she started swimming by herself with no floatation devices. I knew she was almost there, but she didn't want to go floaty-free, but finally she just went for it. Every stroke (a dog paddle/treading water hybrid) is hard fought at this point, but she gets it done, so we went back again today.<br />
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I just turned on the radio and "Losing My Religion" was playing. That song always takes me back to one summer I spent in Boston, and every car that drove by was blasting that song out of open windows as I walked through the blowing trash in Allston. Right now I'm obsessively listening to the Albums "How to Dance" by Mount Moriah and the Margo Price album (total throwback twangy 70s style country). <br />
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LB is playing an elaborate game with stuffed foxes and penguins and an easter basket and my laundry basket. She's begging to go to the "big park" even though it's miserably cold out and she hates the cold and the snow. <br />
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-52775208967250274042016-03-20T10:52:00.004-07:002016-03-21T13:25:16.269-07:00Schools, Schools, Schools: Part 1We signed LB up. She is officially a 6%er having gotten into her new school by lottery. It's a small community charter dual language school (they offer Spanish and Portuguese tracks, and she will be in the Spanish track). Our little unicorn baby. I feel cautiously optimistic about our choice, but I can also see the messed up ways that our current distressed system of public education structured our choices. I like our neighborhood school a lot. It offers some things that the charter does not: gym every day, a gym that can be used for indoor recesses, a big (if seriously rundown) facility, a stage, a community of people who live nearby. But the way the system is structured, we can only choose the charter now. And if it doesn't work out, we can go back to our neighborhood school, but we can't move the other way. So LB will start out as a unicorn.<br />
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And the class and race dynamics: the school LB got into is a school White People Want (WPW). As a district 80% of kids in Providence Public Schools are classified as low-income, and 91% are kids of color-although in terms of total population, Providence is slightly less than half white people. Latinos make up the majority of kids in the district. Our neighborhood school has long been both the blackest and whitest elementary school in the city, but lately has been drawing fewer white kids (although there are still plenty of white kids in the neighborhood) and more latino kids. At least in Elementary, Providence schools work on an 80/20 formula. To register your child, you go to the office in South Providence, take a number, sit in a spartan room full of rows of chairs, with a big sign that says "do not form a line, wait for your number to be called." When you go back into the office, you submit say yes or no to the lottery for the public (not charter) dual language option, and then you submit 3 ranked choices. Your zoned school is established by your address, and zoned schools draw 80% of their students from their zone and 20% from out of zone. As our zoned school has become less popular, the zoned spots don't usually fill. It is all very complicated. And schools don't seem to do a very good job of outreach (and clearly don't have resources to do a good job of outreach). <br />
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The result: the most desirable school among people we know is the other Eastside elementary that is out of our zone, and it's 40% white (likely the whitest public school in Providence). Our neighborhood school is about 20% white, and I believe African American students make up the largest single racial demographic group-and I can't help but think that a rising percentage of African American students correlates with the school becoming less popular among white parents, although white parents don't say so. LB's new school will be both highly diverse (majority latino, 25% white kids, 10% black kids, slightly majority low-income kids) and unrepresentative of the district. <br />
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Providence loses wealthy white families (WWF) (and I'd lump me and LB in that category even though the feds say we qualify as a low-mod family) at every point. Demographically whites in the city skew older than other groups, so more elderly whites and more young latino families, white families move out to the suburbs to afford more house, to avoid city taxes, and to send their kids to suburban schools, the city has a strong culture of independent schools-so there are 5 independents and at least 3 religious schools within walking distance of my home. Charters like LB's are among the most racially balanced schools in the city, but they take more than their share of white kids and not-poor kids.<br />
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So here we are in a district with big, old, crumbling schools, full of poor kids, kids who are learning English, kids who have experienced trauma and dislocation (at my own work, I hear about life in wartime, refugee camps, families separated, from our high schoolers). And the kids have problems, but the problem is not the kids. For reasons I still don't understand, the state pays RI cities less per pupil than it does in the suburbs. And the money follows the student here, so charters pull more money away from urban schools with their fixed and expensive crumbling physical plants.<br />
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So what is diversity in a school system where most of the kids are low income and most are kids of color? What moral responsibility do WWF have to stay in the system? And what special sauce do WWF bring to the system?<br />
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I can see the ways that diversity benefits the high schoolers I know in Providence. That diversity does not necessarily include WWF kids. Instead kids who came here from the DR a few years ago, get really into KPOP and start learning Korean on the internet. These kids are cosmopolitan in a way I certainly never was. <br />
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I don't like the cultural arguments that tell us in more or less veiled language that poor kids of color need to learn with white kids of privilege so that they can learn the cultural habits of whiteness and wealth, so they can get respectable, so that the rising tide will lift their boats. But there are ways that being in proximity to wealth and power help people glean wealth and power (and by glean I do mean, collect the leftover bits after the harvest). <br />
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A school with more WWFs likely have more people who have easy access to lawyers, politicians, and high-level administrators. When they complain about unequal funding formulas and rundown schools, their voices are amplified. In the best case, access to power benefits all the kids in the system. In reality, it often means more resources for the schools and programs used by WWFs, but even then perhaps there is a marginal benefit for all. But if WWF bring resources, they are also remarkably good at segregating those resources for themselves and people like them. The whitest and wealthiest school in our district is a neighborhood school-because it takes most of its students from the wealthiest and whitest neighborhood. Other schools consolidate WWFs in "gifted programs" which are based on tests that measure a child's relative advantage in life. And we have an exam high school, which is the last in the city to hold onto WWFs.<br />
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Without those opportunities to segregate resources, even fewer WWFs would stay in the system, and likely the system would be in even worse shape (and when WWFs leave for the suburbs they take their tax payments with them, and the district's per child money is for kids who enroll, so when kids go to independents, the public school system has to deal with its heavy sunk costs with even fewer dollars).<br />
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And the issue of public schools and individual morality: I don't think WWFs should be too quick to claim the high moral ground for choosing publics. Most of us who do have a decent public option, as well as kids who are able to function within that option. And I don't think moral responsibility requires us to keep our kids in a situation that is miserable. I definitely judge parents who call out public schools as crap, rough, failing...without ever visiting those schools-and I think many of those judgements are based on evaluations of the race/class makeup of the school, and of WWF peer pressure. <br />
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But even as I have sympathy for parents who choose charters (that includes me) or independents or "better" publics, it troubles me to make the comparison between opting out of public schools and residential white flight in the 1950s through the 1970s. When white people fled to the suburbs, some of them did so because they didn't want to have black neighbors, others feared the loss of value in their properties, some were moving for other reasons-to get a shiny new house, to be close to family. But in the end it didn't really matter whether WWFs moved because of racist motivations, mixed motivations, or motivations unrelated to race, what mattered was that most of the white families left and they took everything of value that they could carry, and that loss of white wealth massively destabilized american cities. <br />
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And also helped created our underfunded urban schools (my school historian friend tells me that before the 1960s, urban schools were the best and best funded in the nation). When we act as individuals, we are also acting as a group. That collective action has power beyond our seemingly individual act. Even if our individual action is based on motivations other than race, if the collective result of our individual actions perpetuates and increases the inequality in a society structured by racial inequality, then the effect of our individual action is to perpetuate racism.<br />
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-87468386032282319682016-03-13T17:20:00.001-07:002016-03-15T08:21:56.418-07:00Trumping 2016Way back over Christmas, my dad and I were discussing Trump and I said, or so I thought, hyperbolically: "in the coming racewar, I'm sticking with the Black and Brown people." And now it seems that I was non-religiously prophetic. We are finally having that "national conversation" on race that we put off in 1968 because it seemed a little too freaky. And by "national conversation" I mean beating each other with the staffs of American flags. <br />
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I think LB and I have been having the same conversation that's happening in many white, progressive households:<br />
LB: Is Donald Trump nice?<br />
Me: No, he is not a nice man?<br />
LB: Why?<br />
Me: He is nice to people with brown skin like L (a friend from school), he doesn't like people who speak Spanish like E (another friend), and he doesn't like women who cover their heads like M's mom.<br />
LB: That isn't nice, it's wrong to tell someone you don't like them because they have brown skin. I'm friends with everybody.<br />
Me: I know baby.<br />
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And it was all good, I'd kept the door open, continued our conversation about the world around us. And then <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cokie-roberts-presses-trump-rhetoric-children">this interview </a>happened. And then it became the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/us/politics/donald-trump-talking-to-your-kids.html?_r=0">conversation of record: here.</a> Shit. My little white girl could be one of those kids saying: "if Donald Trump is president, you can't live here anymore!" Not because she wants that to happen, but because she's five and that's what she heard me say (five year old version).<br />
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And I realized LB and I only had half the conversation. The next conversation is about: Donald Trump says mean things about people, but we won't let him do mean things. Sometimes people are mean, but it's our job to say "you are not allowed to do that!" We always help our friends if someone is being mean. And we vote.<br />
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A princess with a penguin on her head with an umbrella on his head.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-59373281944811293142016-02-23T15:11:00.002-08:002016-02-23T15:11:54.015-08:00PW Protected: Snarkfest 2016A pw protected post up at the other blog:<br />
<a href="https://lbbreadandroses.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/snarkfest-2016/">https://lbbreadandroses.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/snarkfest-2016/</a>Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941253759415382163.post-13971097183094529522016-02-21T14:40:00.003-08:002016-10-16T18:09:04.666-07:00Dorothy Day is my Patron SaintIt's complicated, of course, with her not canonized. But, then I'm not Catholic. Dorothy Day: a difficult woman, a single mother, a side-switcher and fellow traveler, a woman with more vision and devotion than sense. <br />
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What I hate these days: "lifestyle blogs" I read blogs through bloglovin which I find to be a serviceable blog feed that unfortunately thinks I want to read a bunch of crap blogs that will teach me how to style my blood diamonds and such. I just made the mistake of clicking on a lesbian mom lifestyle blog, which was the worst: how to spend a million dollars on baby crap so you can achieve just the right look of simplicity. I have only myself to blame for that click.<br />
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I've had occasion to realize how lucky I am to live in this apartment, not only because we overlook the park and the corner store (it is still a bodega if it's owned by moroccans who advertise "Spanish Food!), but because as LB and I walk to Whole Foods on Saturday morning in the other direction is a stream of older people taking their carts and bags to the Saturday food pantry at the storefront church down the street. And we know how lucky and rich we are in a very tangible way. Every time someone asks us for a dollar or a bus ticket, I get to have a real conversation with LB about who has and who doesn't have, and what it means to share or not share what we have.<br />
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Wordpress: So I have my wordpress site that I use for pw protected posts, but now I can't pw protect because they did some update that took that away. Therefore you and I were denied a good rant and some adult topicing. PG version. I took a 6 month dating hiatus, which got a little complicated and then not complicated at all. <br />
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What I've been watching: Formation. Again and again. I'm fascinated and I wish I had students so I could make them watch and deconstruct. Pro: vernacular black history, pop/protest crossover. Anti: Black capitalism as the path to liberation. <br />
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LB: an absolute love even when she drives me crazy. She's finally wearing a winter coat. She seems to have more energy lately. She's writing-her name and then nonsense words, but it's all good. Among our adventures, we went with friends to a vintage duckpin bowling alley with LB's boldest friend and LB had great time doing some kind of modified running man while bowling very, very slowly.<br />
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School pic: this is so LB, smiley and holding back just a little.<br />
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Weather: a little snow, a little extreme cold, but not really that bad-thank you higher power. I picked LB up early when daycare closed due to snow, and I had the genius idea of bringing LB home in our sled. What kid doesn't like a sled? After standing outside for five minutes arguing about whether she would get snow on her butt, she finally sat down, but whimpered the whole way home. And of course we didn't have her snow pants, so I'm sure she was cold.<br />
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Holidays: incredibly painful. But LB looked lovely for our fancy Christmas Eve dinner.<br />
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Work: good but stressful. I had good grant news after busting my ass for weeks and weeks, but some how good news just leads to higher anxiety. I probably need more exercise.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251539482775464009noreply@blogger.com5