Donald Drumpf’s election night victory evaporated the mirage that so many of us have come to believe as real. The fuzzy illusion that racism, bigotry and inequality are withering. That the future is less about borders, races and religions, and more about people working hard, supporting one another and embracing the differences that once drove […]

  Last year was a jumble. Like millions of other people I was disheartened to watch our country’s leaders drag us back into the past, policies and executive actions that damaged the environment, held down the most needy of people and impeded scientific progress. At times I took action, learning about climate change, gun violence […]

Sometime last year I read Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson. It’s a short read focused on a singular keen reminder of life’s simple truth: change is inevitable. Some people embrace change much like the mice in the book. Others avoid it at all costs like the little people in the book. I tend to either […]

I’m not sure when it happened–maybe it has always been this way–but it feels like my days have morphed into a series of steps and tasks that carry me from dawn to dusk. Instead of waking up and wondering what the day will bring I shut off my alarm and, for the most part, know in far too much detail […]