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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…
Jun 15, 2023
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It's Pride! Let's make this month count.
We need to leave our stories for others to find
Jun 1, 2023
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May 2023
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…
May 22, 2023
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April 2023
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…
Apr 28, 2023
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March 2023
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…
Mar 9, 2023
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December 2022
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…
Dec 21, 2022
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November 2022
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…
Nov 28, 2022
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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…
Nov 2, 2022
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September 2022
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…
Sep 22, 2022
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August 2022
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…
Aug 27, 2022
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Ambient anxiety and the pursuit of happiness
Everything is awful, and I’m aware of every awful thing all the time. There’s the pandemic, and climate change. The threat of social unrest, and the…
Aug 10, 2022
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July 2022
Quaranteam nostalgia
Rethinking work, life and meaning for the contemporary age
Jul 25, 2022
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