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Summer Reading 2020: Do the Work

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Image from @jane_mount on Instagram I usually slam into summer--physically and mentally exhausted--ready to recharge through the escape of books. But like so many of you, I'm feeling soul tired. And if I'm weary--a privileged white woman in America--then I can't imagine how my Black friends feel. So I refuse to drape the veil of indifference over myself, slip into "summer mode," and resume this "heavy" reading in a more convenient season. That is the very essence of White privilege and one of the reasons we keep repeating this horrific cycle of brutality against People of Color. Nope. This will be a "self-work summer" for me--to continue the hard, necessary work of becoming an antiracist. This is the 10th year that I've shared my Summer Reading List in this space, and it's not the first time that I've shared my journey to learn more about systemic racism. I started leaning into the discomfort when in 2016 a Hispanic stude
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Rona Reads: What else are we going to do?

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I've struggled to write over the past few weeks, which is hard for a word person. Full Disclosure: my journal is filled with questions and curse words and a lot of "BREATHE & BE" in various versions of handwriting; I can't untangle the uncertainty no matter how hard I try. So I'm giving myself grace and space. The words will come. Maybe this is a season to process rather than to produce. I don't have many words to offer right now, but I can offer a list of books to read to help pass this time. As most of you know, I love being book bossy and compiling lists of recommendations. I found this picture in January and loved it because it reflects the hunkering-down-nature of winter. Never in a million years did I think our lives would actually become this picture or that I would write a post about books to read during a Pandemic, but here we are. Yes, it's hard to focus sometimes, but I need to read every day to stay sane. Here are the books that
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