America is awash in culture wars. It can feel dizzying as we hear the narratives being weaponized to push people towards one ‘side’ or another-especially when it comes to vulnerable populations like trans kids. Almost nowhere do we see people cultivating...
The year was 1992, less than a year after the fall of the Soviet Union. I was a college student on Semester at Sea, a program that took students around the world stopping in 11 different countries along the way. One of the stops was Odessa, Ukraine and it would be our...
Friends, I hope this finds you well. I’ve been very quiet for the past year, in part due to an accident which left me unable to walk for almost 3 months. Those of you who know me well and know much I love to move my body know how challenging this was. I had a lot of...
As I grieve the loss (or ‘continuation’ as he would say) of my beautiful teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, I remember the huge shift he catalyzed in my life. I had read a few of his books before being lucky enough to get a spot at one of his in-person retreats in...
I turned on the trial of the murder of George Floyd just as medical expert Dr. Martin Tobin was testifying. Two consecutive frames of the video were playing over and over, showing the exact moment that George Floyd died on the pavement in Minneapolis. Life Goes Out...
