This is from way-back but it seems worth mentioning...
I feel like I have the opposite story to cultural appropriation, perhaps cultural abandonment. Noah refuses to believe he is Chinese. He has said, on two occasions, "People keep saying I'm Chinese but they are wrong." Essentially. When I tell him he is wrong and ask him what he is, he says, "White" and then offers up his inner arm as proof.
When I was a small child I insisted I wasn't white. The only white people I spent any time with on a regular basis were my parents. The neighborhood we lived in was largely African American, our church was black, all my friends were black, my babysitter was black... he's the one I had a meltdown with when he said something about my being white. When my mother brought it up later and asked me what I was I held up my inner arm and said (quite adamantly), "I'm pink."
For a while, my niece insisted that she was grey. She said that if her father was black and her mother was white, that makes her grey. I was very amused.
When was the last we heard from ita? I don't remember seeing her around all day.
Aw, Noah! Hee.
You guys, the Good Stuff is trending on tumblr. I don't even know what that means, except a million notes and new followers. Just when I have the least time!
Oh! Maybe that's why I've got 7 new followers today. Since Good Stuff reblogged one of my posts today.
I don't know how this shit happens -- I haven't had anything original (or, "original") in forever.
First attempt at cookies for the Atomic Books cookie swap. Need better quality chocolate. And more bourbon.
Noah ambushed me with a God question out of the blue after discussing whether cops can go to jail (and I have no idea where that came from either.) With no moms around to rescue me. 'Can God go to jail?' Only people can go to jail. 'Some people think God is yellow.' ...OK. 'No, really!' (Very indignantly!) I believe you! 'So can God be a person?' ....
Before I got too thick in the weeds, he hopped to another topic.
God is yellow? I can't even figure out what that means.
It does add a new wrinkle to Kermit's lament "It's Not Easy Being Green."
Noah is a topic jumper, so if you can wait it out, he'll normally move on.
We went to see our friend Jamie sing Messiah at the Sing-Along. It was good and Noah's first experience with choral singing. He was great. And the cookies after were delicious!
