When I was younger, I thought I wanted to be an occupational therapist. I’d heard the word somewhere and, without knowing what it really meant, decided that being an occupational therapist meant helping people find their dream jobs. We’d sit in a big swanky office, my clients and I, and we’d talk about their innermost [...]
About twice a year, we take our cat Amos to the vet to get groomed. It’s one of those things I never thought I’d pay someone else to do (see also: car detailing), but I’d never go back to doing myself. Amos hated being brushed. Hated it with a fire-y passion that consumed his soul. [...]
A couple weeks ago, we took up the subject of legalized segregation in the nineteenth-century South. We talked about Jim Crow and how that played out at the time, as well as how the mindset of racism permeated society then and now. We discussed lynching and how it wasn’t just about killing or death, but [...]