I had a similar experience as an adult when my daughters were in a small private grade school in Oakland, CA in the early '90s and we parents were asked to participate in "diversity training," a phrase we all kind of scoffed at. The approach was to have people stand or cross the room based on questions around race, class and gender and b…

Reading how you and Peter did Vegas makes me think that maybe I do want to go there sometime after all, maybe on a road trip to the Grand Canyon which might balance out the shock with awe. As for LV, I've not been since the early '90s and I was only went there to see my first husband's family, which been transferred there from Danville f…