Shay 
I entered 2023 with a profound fear of dying early. I was turning 50 in January—the same age that my mother was when she died (and not even a week after that birthday, no less). Six weeks before her death, I had just turned 31. For 19 years, I lived with this overwhelming fear of …
If you’ve followed me on other platforms or social media, you might already know this. But if not: I’m one of the shrinking numbers of people who haven’t gotten COVID yet. It’s not because I have some sort of wondrous immune system. No, I got sick plenty over the years when my kids were in …
Violence. We’ve gotten so comfortable with violence. So-called Christians wishing for atheists to die horrible deaths. People calling upon others to do violence to trans people just for existing. The way officials strive to build “cop cities” to train police to do harm to citizens in ever more blatant ways, not just for crimes (that …