Shay 
A few weeks after turning 18, I met the boy who would become my first husband and the father of my eldest child. He was 20 when we met and we fell head over heels, very much in that first love kind of way. Hot, heavy, and intense. We mistook hormonally fueled teen passion for …
Last month, I wrote a piece for Patreon patrons in which I posed the idea that, increasingly, Americans no longer share the same reality. The impetus for that piece was the Harris-Trump debate and how people’s political views and preferred narratives shaped how people saw the debate and who they deemed the winner. I had …
Twenty-eight years ago, two things happened that changed the trajectory of my life. I signed up for a stint as an AmeriCorps Vista, training to become a community organizer and working in a community on the far North side of Chicago and I found Jesus. I was baptized in Lake Michigan, and from that day …