“What Are You?” - Answering a Question I Never Chose
It usually comes with a tilted head and a friendly smile. In a grocery line, on a first day, from a stranger who feels entitled to know. "What are you?" Three small words that have followed me my whole life — and that, for a long time, I felt I had to answer.
You Don’t have to Pick a Side
You're not half of anything. You're a whole person made of more than one beautiful thing.
5 Questions Your Biracial Child is Already Asking
Here's something I've learned, first as that kid and later as a counselor: children start working on their identity long before they have the words to ask you about it out loud. The questions are already there, humming under the surface. When you can hear them early, you get to help write the answers — before the world writes them first.
Why Beautifully Blended?
People ask me about the name all the time. Why "Beautifully Blended"? Why not something simpler, punchier, easier to fit on a tag? The honest answer is that the name isn't just decoration. It's the whole point.