Much has been made about Vice President Harris’s multi-racial ethnicity, how it has shaped her, how it inspires girls of color, and how people perceive her. Her inauguration has caused me to reflect on my upbringing and its effect.
Category: Personal Essays
Surprising Things to Know About Your Devoted Kpop Fan
(This article was first published on News Break. You can view it here!) After opening presents at Christmas, my teen, a K-Pop fan, expressed how grateful she was that her aunts and I had bothered to learn what specific groups and artifacts she was interested in before gifting her. She was blissfully content with the …
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From Dreams to Destiny — What Happened at Mom’s Vanity Table
After Death, a Simple Furnishing Becomes a Powerful Artifact. An essay on how mementos help us process grief.
Floundering to Hopeful — My Quarantine Evolution
(This article was published in Change Your Mind, Change Your Life. Take a look here! A revised version was published on News Break, which you can see here.) I never expected quarantine to last so long. Naively, I thought this was a chance for our country to unify. I joined other crafters in making masks …
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A Little Girl’s Joy
Almost the sweetest part of the holiday season was the opportunity to be of small service to a single mother. On Christmas Eve, she posted on Freecycle that she was unemployed due to cancer treatments, that her daughter's father had left suddenly, and she was trying to put together some sort of Christmas for her …
Thoughts on #MeToo and the Value of Art
When I was a teen, Mom began talking to me about boys. She spoke in the veiled words of her culture and her generation, yet managed to say the blunt things that only parents and usually mothers can say to their daughters. Things like, "Don't lean on your boyfriend at the party. He gets bothered, …
Karin K. Jensen 