This week's sporkful

It was not planned out, but there was a narrative that emerged with my writing. It became especially clear when I listed the books in chrono...

Picking up where we left off, I am no longer ashamed of being poor or fat (at times I have to fight it harder) because of an awareness of sy...

There is such a wide variety with this group, it follows that there are some I liked more than others. The other thing is that sometimes the...

My initial plan was to circle back to economic inequality and how it affects political power. There are  some timely examples!  As soon as I...

"Antiracism" was going to be a book category for this anyway, but having just done the spotlight on Stamped , I realized that I sh...

It's not easy casting off shame. Even now, where I am fairly advanced with it, I still feel a certain defensiveness writing about it. ...

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America , by Ibram X. Kendi, was published in 2016. True to it's t...

Again, from the sheet... I am angry that I have had three employers screw me over. Significantly, I only started allowing myself to feel ang...

I'm taking a quick break in the Black History Month reviews because I just finished two months worth of songs. It has been an ongoing pr...

After writing a week ago that I am generally better rested -- with some emotional complications dealing with my mother's dementia -- we...

Most of these I watched a while ago and really wanted to.  Three of them were last minute additions, two of which I felt very critical of, b...

I mentioned the different categories on the paper last week, but I did not mention that two of them were exactly alike. I want.. money love...

I wanted to go over a few more books, in a few more categories. Picture Books that are not by Pinkneys: Big by Vashti Harrison Bedtime Bon...

In sorting through old things, I came upon something that I knew I needed to spend more time on. I originally started using those big at-a-g...

I have reached another milestone in my attempts to read everything by the Pinkney family. There is a lot here, even with all of his work tha...

About a month later, I am no longer giddy.  https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2024/03/in-good-place.html I am not unhappy, but the euphoria has ...

I had gotten out of the habit of reading poetry with these months, but this time around it occurred to me to read through Amanda Gorman. Now...

Recently I wrote about noticing people having unmet needs for talking: https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2024/03/shortcuts-in-speech.html  I hav...

This list of songs jumped all over the place. Much of it was inspired by reading, but not all. First of all, one thing I enjoyed at Christma...

I thought I would write some more about getting things out, but I think I need to finish at least one other book first.  Instead I am going ...