Mwahlmeier

Content warning // hate crimes - In the aftermath of the March 16th shooting in Atlanta where a white gunman killed eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, celebrated Asian-American author Lisa Ko tweeted, “White supremacy is not going to be dismantled through diverse reading lists.”

If you tuned into this year’s presidential inauguration, you may now have major heart-eyes for Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old National Youth Poet Laureate who stole the show as she read her free verse poem, “The Hill We Climb.”

A few weeks ago, my colleagues and I were beside ourselves with excitement when we heard about a new easy reader series called Emma Every Day.

I’ve been feeling a lot of tension lately.  In my jaw, my neck and shoulders.  In my rapid heartbeat and racing thoughts.  Maybe you have, too.

I’ve noticed that, in the moments when my eyes are full of tears that haven’t yet spilled, the world looks different.

I was working the front Children’s desk last year when a little girl with glasses said to me, “I can’t find my name.”