The Musings of a Latte Queen: Narratives of Everyday Life

 I have been busy with our family transition, dealing with movers, packing, setting up the apartment, and just swamped, so it was with a bit of dismay this morning that I was finally able to sit down and have a cup of coffee to watch the news when the news was shattering: The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Affirmative Action in higher education. Now, this is more than just Harvard or UNC or frankly, any college or university. This is four decades of precedence.  Like them striking down Roe v. Wade. They have consistently shown themselves to be the most racist, mean-spirited, ultra conservative court that has ever existed. White boys are not smarter than African Americans. What they got was legacy admissions and unmerited access to generations of higher education. White boys are not smarter than the vast majority of the country and one of the things that Affirmative Action made sure was that poor white students, women, African American, Indigenous, and other people who otherwis...

 I have been quite busy over the past few months and in the midst of all the jubilant chaos of excited blessings, I had to quiet myself. We have been on a whirlwind every since my husband stepped into his new role at yet another university. It has been event-after-event, more people met in a short time, and lots of changes. Those changes can feel overwhelming when stacked on top of one another. They have included moves of my adult children, lots of travel, planning entire house moves, studying, and still trying to walking in the joy and happiness I've been studying. Change is inevitable, it is new every day, fresh every morning like the grace that rests upon each of us, but it is also a lot to navigate if it is more than what was expected, or if it rushes at you all at once. Or it can be anticipated, but unanticipated at the enormity of it and how literally overnight your circumstances can shift. I have been packing for days on end now, preparing for our household move to place som...