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Fear is Our Biggest Impediment
For many of us, fear is our biggest impediment! Fear grips us, cripples us, and enslaves us! We are afraid of the dark We are afraid of...
Doreen Lwanga
Dec 2, 20151 min read
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I Promise not to Be “Too Exotic”
Years back, I was taken to “Meet the Parents”. As soon as I stepped in through the door, my “would-be mother-in-law commented, “You look...
Doreen Lwanga
Oct 23, 20152 min read
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Dear Parents, Your Kids Celebrations Are Not About You…!
I typically do not write about family affairs. I have a self-censored rule that “I shall NOT wash my family dirty linen in public. Even...
Doreen Lwanga
Dec 26, 20146 min read
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Kids are Cultural “Whores”: Wait, can you say the “W” with Kids…?
It is amazing how quickly kids switch cultural identify. Well, if like me, you believe that “language is culture”, that’s what I am...
Doreen Lwanga
Dec 25, 20144 min read
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Learning about Veterans Day from my sixth grader
I cannot recall the last time I went to church, so the order of events at my neighborhood celebration of Veterans Day 2014 caught me off...
Doreen Lwanga
Nov 14, 20145 min read
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Teaching Children about Columbus Day in an era of Contested Knowledge and Truth Formation
This past Monday, October 13, 2014, was Columbus Day, when America remembers Christopher Columbus. So, my first grader and I engaged in a...
Doreen Lwanga
Oct 15, 20146 min read
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In Defense of the “Word Value of Time”: From a Soccer Mom
I feel for all the sentiments Simon expressed! Though my comment to Simon was, “come to America….with plenty of versions of Uganda,...
Doreen Lwanga
Sep 30, 20144 min read
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Not Everyone is Sophie, John, Jane or Matt: Diversity Consciousness in the Classroom
Recently, I was at an teacher training workshop, where the speaker for a session on “Qualities of a Good Substitute Teacher” mentioned...
Doreen Lwanga
Sep 22, 20145 min read
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Help Your Children Dream
I strongly believe in the power of dreams. They shape lives, build relations, mentor professions, restore hope and courage. They could be...
Doreen Lwanga
Sep 12, 20145 min read
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Of COURSE! SSENGA’s Have a Place in Modernity!
Funny how plenty of folks are quick to dismiss traditions in many cultures as “archaic”, “barbaric” and without a place in “modern...
Doreen Lwanga
Oct 4, 20133 min read
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Liberalism is just an illusion
I guess all of us communicate to try and get the other part(ies)y see our point of view. To allow others read part of our mind, and...
Doreen Lwanga
Sep 5, 20135 min read
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You Bet, culture does REALLY Matter!
And I strongly believe that “Culture Matters“, the title of a book by a professor from my graduate school, something Harrison (well, he...
Doreen Lwanga
Sep 1, 20135 min read
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It’s OK to Be Different
So, we are entering a new phase…not entirely new…but in a new context…It is called K-Class…. My son is going to start Kindergarten in...
Doreen Lwanga
Aug 17, 20134 min read
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