BEYOND Understanding

I ’ve heard lots of great advice in the past week on how to help out in these troubling times. Here’s a quick rundown of what I’ve heard me...

H ere in Denver, more than 100,000 people marched yesterday, and I was not one of them. Not because I hadn’t heard about the march. I’d be...

B oxing legend Muhammad Ali was known for a lot of things—his world titles, his dynamic personality, his fast-talking poetic ...

T hanks to the return of Lisa Kenney Meserve to her blog  Eudaemonia , I was inspired earlier this month to try to blog on occasion once a...

A s dramas along our borders are once again spotlighted by our media and social networks, books like Amor and Exile: True Stories of Love...

L eave it to blogger extraordinaire Thien-Kim to provide a timely list of multicultural children’s books that focus on Mardi Gras and N...

I stayed up late last night to finish Julie Kibler ’s intricately plotted debut novel, Calling Me Home . On one level, Calling Me Home ...

I ’ve been meaning to write about the My American Meltingpot blog written by author LoriTharps since author Carleen Brice mentioned it t...

  M y first babysitting job was to watch a newborn for the foster family next door for a dollar an hour in the summer of 1977. I remember ...

A uthor Tiffany Catledge  recently introduced herself via a Goodreads group on mixed-race literature. Her children’s book, Mixed Me: A Tale...

I recently attended a workshop at Lighthouse Writers Workshop here in Denver in which poet Mark Doty offered tips on how to “force a foc...

I was pleasantly surprised to read in a friend’s Facebook post last Friday that a new Cheerios ad featured a biracial family. “Seems odd...

H ow fitting that I found myself reading an essay about upstate New York (“Let Me Tell You What It Means” by author Brock Clark e in a gem ...

C olorado author and journalist Cathie Beck recently met with a lunch group I organize of local women authors, editors, and other talented...