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Featured image: Image by svekloid on Shutterstock. Edited in Affinity Photo and Designer.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external). 4 for NowIt may surprise some people to know that Marx was a democrat (in the true sense of the word, not the

Featured image: Image by ctankcycles, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Edited in Affinity Photo and Designer.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external). 4 for NowEvery year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, politicians and white people who want to appear racially aware share

Image by Sincerely Media from Unsplash. Edited in Affinity Photo.I did The Calm Scribe’s reading challenge last year (see my planned book list and my results post). I was excited because it’s a list of 26 types of books, and I get to pick which specific books to read.Why not just say “read 26 books this year”

Featured image by Debby Hudson from Unsplash. Edited in Affinity Designer.Last year, I participated in The Calm Scribe’s Reading Challenge for 2021. Today I’m looking back to see how I did.From the ListI read seven of my 26 originally planned books. I read two more that were substitutions:Instead of I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown, I read

Featured image: Images by Gayatri Malhotra from Unsplash. Edited in Affinity Photo.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external). 4 for NowI know it’s New Year’s Eve here in the US, but remind me—are we going into 2022 or 1973? With the cases

Featured image: Images by na-um and gillmar on Shutterstock. Edited in Affinity Photo.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external). 4 for NowOriginally observed in January, the celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth (actual date unknown) was moved to December 25th. The theory (which,

Featured image: Image from UN.com [scroll down. There’s one in each of a few languages.] Edited in Affinity Designer.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external). 4 for NowDespite about 15% of the world’s population (1 billion people) being disabled, disabled people are

Featured image: Photo by Vane Nunes on Shutterstock. Edited in Affinity Designer.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external). 4 for NowFirst, I want to reiterate the points I made in What do White People Know About Race? Replacing a few terms, the

Featured image: Photo by fran_kie on Shutterstock. Edited in Affinity Designer.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external). 4 for NowSome disabilities don’t present externally. But I think a lot of these “invisible” disabilities are written off as such because people aren’t really

Featured image: Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash. Edited in Affinity Designer.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external). 4 for Now“Manifest Destiny” is one of those phrases we had to memorize for high school history tests, but that carries a vague meaning

Featured image: Assets by Ign on Shutterstock and GDJ on Pixabay. Edited in Affinity Designer.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external). 4 for NowThe US has a long history of bad karma. (I’ve written about some of it here, here, and here.)

Featured image: Image by Jim Vallee on Shutterstock. Edited in Affinity Designer. Due to technical difficulties, there is no YouTube video this week.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external). 4 for NowThe United States finally pulling out of Afghanistan is a big