I was trying to pass, not as white or as black, but as a mixed-race person who looked mixed. Surely that kind of passing represents a rarefied version of tragic mulattoism, a true hairsplitting of identities. What can I tell you? That was the race card I was dealt.
Digesting Architecture
I've been exploring our built environment lately, thanks to assignments from Architectural Digest's website (click on the pictures to get to the magazine's site). Topics have ranged from the precious handful of preserved historic theaters around the U.S....
The Way Forward
For months Mom waited for an apartment to open up—which meant, we realized, waiting for an occupant to die or to be transferred into the euphemistically named Memory Care wing. In the interim, we occupied ourselves with the colossal minutiae of moving.
Why Can’t Adoption Be Multicultural?: The New York Newsday Interview with Elizabeth Bartholet
Elizabeth Bartholet: “In my own case, the longer I’ve lived life as an adoptive parent, the more secure I’ve felt with the idea of openness. And it’s because the reality of an adoptive family for me is a quite wonderful, true form of family. There’s nothing fragile about it; I don’t live in fear that it would be shattered if some birth parent crossed the threshold.” (Newsday interview, 1993)
Neo-Tudor furniture from Milan
“It is a family company and this is the fourth generation. Four generations means that it’s inside the skin.” —Maurizio Rainoldi, export manager for Emmemobili