‘I read. I travel. I become.’

Road Trip Tweet from 2012: We’re listening to “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” while driving in preparation for visiting the Holocaust Museum later this week. I think back to that tweet often when planning road trips. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was a highlight of our trip to Washington, DC, that summer....

Road tripping with the kids to the Land of Lincoln (Springfield, Illinois)

I was in the eighth grade when we had to memorize “The Gettysburg Address” and I quickly fell in love with learning about President Abraham Lincoln. We visited Gettysburg several years ago on a larger road trip with the kids and wished we had planned more time there. It is rather for us to be...

‘No one is born hating another person’

The movie “42” tells the story of Jackie Robinson who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947. One of the most heartbreaking scenes is when a young, white boy and his father attend a Brooklyn Dodgers game, and as Robinson takes the field, the father starts screaming, “hey nigger, we don’t want...