The Community as Our School As a former member of the Minneapolis School Board and former executive director of AchieveMpls,

“My vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women.”—Alice Walker

As a national holiday, Thanksgiving Day is a commemoration of what in school we used to call “The First Thanksgiving.”

“We women turn things inside out and set things right. We salvage what we can of human garments and piece the rest into blankets.
— Louise Erdrich, “Four Souls”

I should have known that babies died, but in 2005, I did not. I remember the nurse’s face when she

Nursing and Climate Change