by Tom DeWolf | Feb 12, 2019 | Books, Reviews, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Trauma and Healing
(Note: this post first appeared at Beacon Broadside) I looked forward to Dr. Robin DiAngelo coming to the town where I live, Bend, Oregon, since her appearance was announced a few months ago by The Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholar Program of Central Oregon Community...
by Tom DeWolf | Nov 18, 2015 | Books, Reviews
I ran across Kent Haruf’s Our Souls at Night while looking for something else at the library. It looked interesting so I checked it out. I’m so glad I did. A wonderful story about Addie and Louis, two long-time neighbors whose spouses have both passed...
by Tom DeWolf | Nov 5, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Toni Morrison says of Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s letter-in-book-form to his teenage son, “This is required reading.” As one who has been enculturated throughout my life to believe I am “white” I not only agree with Ms....
by Tom DeWolf | Jul 31, 2015 | Books, Reviews, Coming to the Table, Gather at the Table
For the past two and a half years I have worked for a non-profit organization I’ve been part of since it was formed almost 10 years ago. Coming to the Table is a committed and growing group of people providing leadership, resources and a supportive environment...
by Tom DeWolf | Dec 6, 2014 | Author Stuff, Writing, Books, Reviews
There are times when I am “stuck” in my own writing for various reasons, but I always read. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t reading a book. I read for the joy of the story. I read to enter other worlds. I read to inspire my own writing....
by Tom DeWolf | Nov 22, 2014 | Author Stuff, Writing, Books, Reviews, Coming to the Table, Gather at the Table
GIVE BOOKS! SAVE MONEY! SUPPORT A GREAT CAUSE! This Holiday Season, you can give copies of Gather at the Table, or Inheriting the Trade, books from the King Legacy Series, the powerful An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (which I recently...
