A recent New York Times  article posed an intriguing question: “Why Are So Many People Going ‘No Contact’ with Their Parents? A growing...

In one of my all-time favorite episodes of Star Trek, the crew of the USS Enterprise stumbles upon an extraordinary encounter with...

Today, Christmas is a time many associate with joy, decorations, generosity, and community. However, this wasn’t always the case. During...

Note: this week’s offering is related to an earlier Christmas Unwrapped that focused on the nativity. This moves on to how Christmas...

How many of us grew up in homes where Christmas didn’t feel like Christmas without cozy nights under blankets, watching holiday cartoons...

When I was in the 7th grade, I briefly tried to get my friends to change my name to Michael. Growing up in a conservative religious...

What do you do when you feel yourself sinking— when the weight of all that could be feels like ten thousand universes pressing on a body...

Rejecting Vaccine Skepticism & the Focus on Eliminating Difference You’ve probably heard that life expectancy—now around 77.6 years in...

"The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and...

One of the myths in American history is that Abraham Lincoln, a poor man from Illinois, was an underdog who changed the world by sheer...

We always knew it would be close. Those of us who’ve watched the pendulum of history swing understand that anger, fear, resentment, and...

Friends, if you look at research done by Pew (a conservative leaning think tank), it shows that the majority of states have a near even...

Each day, the litany of voices and self-recriminations and guilty what-ifs. You see the poster that was hanging in the bedroom walking...

Two weeks ago, we had a lovely weekend in El Paso. Three humans. Three dogs. Exploring the world. On Monday of this week, our son started...

I just want to point out that all these politicians who keep claiming they are protecting children by taking steps to criminalize...

“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself...

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela There are 26,727 high schools in the United...

t/w sexual abuse; trauma; suicide My maternal grandmother grew up on a northern Pennsylvania farm. Her mother died shortly after...

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different...

Doing those deeply unfashionable things—slowing down, letting your spare time expand, getting enough sleep, resting—is a radical act now,...