For three and a half years I drove an hour to and from work. That is nearly twenty-two days of driving every year. It wasn’t all that bad.

I’ll get this out of the way. Are we going to keep calling it white paper? Probably. Be at ease, dear reader, I aim not to strip the word “white” from all its usages. Printed paper is, generally speaking, white.

If you’re like me, Juneteenth is a completely new word to you. Space to Celebrate Freedom explores my experience as a white woman, a lover of festivals, grappling with an incredibly important holiday that is not yet nationally recognized.