My ONE LOVE life

About

I am a mother, wife, artist, and entrepreneur. I live in southern California with my husband and two beautiful daughters. Our ethnic/cultural make-up consists of White Anglo-Saxon, Jewish, West Indian and African. My art consists of making jewelry, and creating mandalas, and most recently beautifying the world-wide-web…(though I did not build this site -merely modified a template!!)

I have always been unconventional. I know my parents have had many stressful moments about my choices in life. One of the bigger decisions I made was in 1996 when I left my budding career and joined the Peace Corps (2 years after completing a Master’s degree to get to the budding career!). This experience, as you may well imagine, changed my life in more ways than one. In the beginning it became an unexpected journey into my racial identity. Then it morphed into finding the love of my life and building a family together.

Over the past 12 years we have lived in 3 very different countries. (I look forward to living overseas again and sharing the amazing growth opportunity with my girls). Along the way I have kept a journal, full of entires talking about my joys and struggles, and at times my experiences, thoughts and feelings about being a white woman. I will call upon those experiences for this blog, drawing upon the past and present.

As I have become a parent, my role as “white woman” seems to be an ever present nagging voice, some days taking precedence over my my plain ol’ role of “mom”.

So this blog is here to:

- help me vent,

- bridge the gap between other inter-racial, inter-cultural families, and

- hopefully educate “others” about how my family really is just like any family that struggles with sibling rivalry, messy bedrooms, and putting the dinner on the table. (Well, maybe our meals don’t look like just any other family’s meals, but you know what I mean!)

My goal is to be authentic and open. If you find that I am not, please call me on it.

Happy reading! I look forward to hearing from you.

One Love,

Elizabeth