Diversity begins with understanding and knowing yourself. It is not that difficult. Knowing yourself includes recognizing and being comfortable in your ignorance. After that, you can begin to ask questions to learn about diverse cultures and peoples. These are steps anybody can take. For example, as a black professional woman I am very comfortable in …
Emotionalism, Racism and Criticism Part 2
Passion without thought or reason becomes emotionalism. Critical thinking helps people remained balanced in approach and opinion while pursuing their passions. Vincent Ruggerio, in his book “Becoming a Critical Thinker,” describes thinking as two processes: Generation of ideas (Creative Thinking) Evaluation of ideas (Critical Thinking) Recognizing and evaluating opinions is part of critical thinking. My …
Emotionalism, Racism and Criticism Part 1
Help Me Understand Something I haven’t lost too much sleep over President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize win. But a lot of people have lost sleep, on both sides of the table. One side defending the win while the other side declares it’s too soon. Let me be up front, I don’t think he should have …
Climbing Mountains
I spent most of today studying about and writing out a training plan to climb Mt. Rainier in 2010. This was a decision I made in 2005 when I moved back to Washington State. The goal I set was to get back into shape and lose 20-30 pounds. Climbing Mt. Rainier was the chosen path …