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Later this week, we pile into the car to leave for our semi-annual three-day road trip. Our final destination is Tupelo, Mississippi. This year, we add…
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What does it mean to be human?
This fall marks ten years since the release of Her, the scifi rom com by the immensely talented director Spike Jonze. When I wrote about the film a…
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Budweiser's missteps highlight culture shifts that should terrify us
Brands don’t shape culture. Culture shapes brands. Now, as the culture wars escalate, businesses are becoming a battlefront. Disney has filed a lawsuit…
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ChatGPT does not understand us
A few months after Jude turned three, he came in from the playground, flopped down next to me on the couch, and said: “I’m dead.” Frances found the word…
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Embrace the darkness
The beauty of community is that we guide each other through the dark moments; we become the internal light that makes periods of darkness bearable. It’s…
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Dreaming forward. Moving backward.
The morning after five people were murdered at Club Q in Colorado Springs, I sunk into a booth with a childhood friend and her family at a gay-friendly…
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Let's make our backpacks lighter
I find myself on a plane, a sleeping child tucked next to me, heading back to New York after a few days in Mississippi and Alabama. I’m trying to…
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Four really great books I didn't write
Jude is a book lover. Every few weeks, we walk a block down to the small library branch in our neighborhood, where he returns his cache and selects a…
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What do people think of me?
A good friend is in the midst of an incredible professional success. She directed Into the Woods, a revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s…
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