Puck went to sleep yesterday and didn’t wake up. He was the sweetest, goofiest, most annoying, and most loving cat I’ve ever known. Puck brought so much joy (and so much frustration) to our household and it’s still hard to believe he’s gone. But he crammed a lot of life into 7 and a half […]
The Loving Project, or what I did during 2017
The last regularly scheduled episode of the Loving Project podcast has been released. For the past 12 months, we’ve been conducting interviews with couples in interracial marriages and turning those stories into podcast episodes that illuminate a bit of what it’s like to be in a mulitracial family 5 decades after the Supreme Court struck […]
On bigotry, racism, and love in a time of hate
Originally posted to Facebook… but some things should be said publicly: I’ve been writing and rewriting this post trying to find words strong enough to condemn the violence that cost lives in Charlottesville yesterday, the growing realization that racism and bigotry aren’t ever going to just die out as an older generation gives way to […]
50 years of Loving
June 12th marks the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage across the country and paved the way for the much more recent (and long overdue) decision that also made same sex marriage legal. The case of Loving v. Virginia involved a black woman and her white husband who were married […]
How we make The Loving Project podcast (recording gear, audio editing software)
It’s been 50 years since the Supreme Court issued a ruling that overturned state laws banning marriages between people of different races. On June 12th, 1967 the Supreme Court issued its ruling in the case of Loving v. Virginia, and my wife and I are marking the anniversary by interviewing people in interracial marriages today […]
A few ideas to actually “make America great again,” since you asked
Ahead of President Donald Trump’s address to Congress tonight, the White House issued a Joint Address Issues Survey to ask Americans what they think of the president’s performance so far, and provide “ideas to make America great again.” The first few questions in the survey are just as biased as the “Mainstream Media Accountability Survey” that […]