I’m 33 and it feels too late to start over. — The window for choosing a specific profession, pathway, or “career” is narrowing. Time’s running out. I’m missing my chance to carve out a unique path for myself. Even though I intellectually know many people make career leaps and have breakthroughs later in life, lately, I’ve felt more like this: …

I’m a Progressive. I’m a Millennial. I’ve moved further from so-called red America over the last 10 years. I was in Washington, DC for one year. Chicago for six year. Now coming up on three years in New York. It’s a few days after the 2018 midterm elections and I’m…

Before social media sites came into existence, allowing everyone to publish their every little thought about any event that happens around the world, I thought very little about what, say, a Utah Republican named Bob thought about abortion, immigration, or former President Barack Obama. Sure, I knew in theory that…

The Supreme Court narrowly decides the presidency. A morning of destruction and death on 9/11. The march toward a decade of war. A depression-like economic collapse in 2008. The Tea Party. Occupy Wall Street. The ugliest of presidential campaigns in 2016. An awakened generation of protestors in 2017. The first…

Books are one of my favorite gifts to receive for Christmas. This year, I received quite a few fantastic reads. One that I most anticipated was an autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr., edited and compiled by Clayborne Carson. Carson took the words of MLK Jr. and put them into…

For the last two years, I kept track of each book I read throughout the year and reflected on them in December. Why did I choose to read them? What stood out about each book? …

There’s one reality that Americans of all political persuasions seem to forget about during an election season. After we go to the polls. After the votes are counted. After concessions speeches are (hopefully) made, we all still have to live together, in one nation. Sure, a tiny minority will threaten…

I never thought I’d say this. But it’s been a strange experience, since same-sex-marriage was legalized in all 50 states in the United States. Don’t get me wrong. I fully supported the Supreme Court decision to make marriage available to same-sex couples. To me, it was a sweet, hard-fought victory…

As with so many moments of carnage in the real world, there’s a lot to learn while skimming through your own Facebook feed. In the days since the horrific violence in Orlando, I’ve seen people on the fundamentalist side of the Christian theological spectrum scramble for cover. “Look,” they say…