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 …
I have spent the last 16 years as the executive director of several different non-profit organizations. For those not well-versed in the nonprofit world, my position is equivalent to the role of CEO in the for-profit sector. Given that less than 33% of non-profits in the United States are led by BIPOC folks, with less …