A good way to spend a rainy Friday: Photography, South African Legacies, Yale Art Gallery. Revisiting David Goldblatt’s photography. Horrified compromises , complicity, militant resistance and willful blindness ; deep impotent rage — from D.G’s daughter.

Finally , $3:49 per dozen eggs at Trader Joe’s . Limit one . So this will be finished in my house on Wednesday.

UConn historians Andy Horowitz , Fiona Vernal and Chris Newell are currently on NPR -from our CT Forum appearance . I woke up to the sound of my own voice on the radio . – at Manchester, CT

Last archival hurrah before vacation. Good distraction from politics and news, I hope

Just found out I’m too low status for Hilton to leave any water in my hotel room. Is this the best way to welcome a guest who’s struggling with luggage, out of breath, and has a hand injury? – at Providence, RI

Fiona Vernal and Andy Horowitz of UConn’s history department at The Connecticut Forum

Just arriving for my oral history talk at Trinity College Center for Urban and Global Studies.

This is kind of how I did in pictionary last night.

Joys of the day, my 16yo said , Oooh Mom, The Crucible is getting juicy.” Finally, something she likes. Holden Caudfield did not go over very well. – at South Windsor, CT

My students usually have a “concept of a plan” to attend class and I need a concept of a plan for my writing. – at Manchester, CT

Is this the revolution being televised? Is this the moment? How would we know? – at Manchester, CT

Is your pet safe ? – at Manchester, CT

Run spot run? What ? – at Manchester, CT

My narrator turns 102!

Installation day at Enfield Historical Society. Thank you ⁦@CTHumanities⁩, ⁦@hfpg⁩, Enfield historical society and UJima. It’s my privilege as a historian to make the past come to life.

Direct flights to Jamaica are back on with Avelo establishing a route & 2 routes to NC, Daytona, Cancun and more in Nov . Thanks Avelo!

Thank you Claudia Owusu for your beautiful love letter to black girlhood, black joy, and the importance of play; and for having UConn screen your film, Ampe.

I’m currently being harassed by a rando who calls to say how come colonization is viewed as bad when we are letting immigrants into the US & dems aren’t enforcing drug laws b/c FDR made his fortune in opium & Smithfield is biggest slave trader than the Atlantic slave trade – at Manchester, CT

In honor of my advisor Lamin Sanneh and his monumental contributions to World Christianity. Revisiting Day Missions library at Yale where I (we, his students) toiled at our dissertations! Glad to honor and remember him in this way with his family and colleagues

Showed my 15yo daughter artists in , “we are the world,” song and she decides that Bruce Springsteen & Willie Nelson are the voices she is going try to copy. Laughed so hard, my throat now hurts. She now knows who Bob Dylan, Kenny Rogers and Cindi Lauper. So much work to do! – at Manchester, CT