Tag: Reckoning

When we’re young and well cared for, everything’s new and surprising and therefore relatively magical. As we get older it’s harder to surprise us, so we’re liable to become jaded and alienated, unless we take care to question our assumptions, shift our perspective once in ...

Public reckoning over The Big Lie on widespread election fraud, the violence of Jan. 6 and the attempt at overturning voting results may be upon us in the form of multiple indictments and civil trials, but the process is stately amid a flood of impatient emotion on all sides. Apart from Donald Tr...

On the afternoon of April 20, 2021, the eyes of the world were on Minneapolis, Minnesota as a guilty verdict was rendered against the former white police officer who murdered George Floyd, an unarmed, handcuffed Black man, in plain sight. In response to the “guilty of all charges” verdic...

When multilingual families of children with speech and language-learning disabilities have come to see me with anguish and guilt because another SLP emphasized that their use of a home language was ‘delaying’ the development of English, I have told them of being 17, not speaking a word o...