Susan Raffo

Twice this week - once on the radio and once in a magazine article - I've heard people refer to "Caucasian" as a race. Please ...

This morning, walking down Lake Street towards the bus stop, I was reminded by how subjective the experience of "exotic" is. There...

I told you I was an inconsistent blogger. Here it's been a timespan again since last writing - and so much has happened, too. I could ha...

It's Valentine's Day and my love is far from me. (Guitar music picks up, something "olde english," like Greensleeves only ...

Here's the other thing that happened upon getting back: I had four different phone and email messages from friends telling me they misse...

Thanks to the wonders of the red eye flight, I am back in Minneapolis, staring blearily at my first television in two and a half weeks: the ...

I'm here in Berkeley, California and it's raining. Not thunderstorm-raining but that all day damp drizzle that reminds me of England...

I find this awesome and fascinating. The first traditional Islamic University has opened in Minneapolis - traditional meaning how Islam is t...

Yesterday morning, en route to my class, I stopped at the Whole Foods to stock up on goodies. As I left the building, I noticed this man sta...

The alarm went off at 7am and I reached for it, bleary and still asleep but also realizing that if I were home with Luca, I'd be up alre...

I'm sitting in my room, looking outside at a redwood tree. Perched on top of a mountain, there is a tumble of houses below me, interming...

It's about 6am. Rocki and Luca are still asleep. I waver between wanting to stay cuddled up in bed with them and wanting to sit up, drin...

Yep. This is an article by him about labor organizing - IN GERMAN . I mean, I speak Portuguese and all but that means that I'm comfortab...

I just found out that Alison Bechdel of Dykes to Watch out for has her own blog in which she also posts a sketch diary, kind of like scenes ...

I leave on Sunday morning for two weeks in Berkeley, California where I'll be studying craniosacral therapy at the fabulous Milne Instit...

Last night I went to a reading and discussion surrounding the book Outsiders Within, an anthology written by transracial adoptees. There wer...

I've been skimming and browsing a website at www.antiracistparent.com for awhile. It's a good website in that it's one of the ...

So, it's been three days in a row that I've done power yoga first thing in the morning. I have a new schedule. I set the alarm for s...

A friend of ours, Marquis, just came over to have dinner and hang out while his adult went off with Rocki to a meeting. Marquis came in full...

Last summer, Luca had the idea of raising dollars to help endangered animals (a word she still sometimes mispronounces as ingendered). A com...