I cleaned out a closet recently, an attempt to finish the KonMari method from the life-changing magic of tidying up by Marie Kondo. It has taken me several years and I’m still not done, and perhaps never will be. As the book says: the papers and keepsakes are the hardest…

On Male Sex & Sexuality — We listened to Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer,” over and over again on a plastic, red and yellow Fisher-Price record player. It was my first sleepover. We were first-grade classmates. I don’t remember his name. Jacob, maybe. Perhaps Adam. …

I sit on a pristine beach in a touristy town outside San Diego, absorbing a brilliantly bright and warm day. The sun shimmers off of the waves as they caress the glistening sand. Children screech and glide like pelicans while parents walk arm-in-arm behind them. Lovers stroll and smile, holding…

There is a line in a Kendrick Lamar song that I can’t stop thinking about. It is from his Pulitzer Prize-winning album, D.A.M.N. I have thought about this line so many times over the months and years since the album’s 2017 release. …

America, on all fronts, is in a state of infinite crisis. Our federal, state, and local governments are on the brink of financial insolvency. Our school and healthcare systems are on the thresholds of failure. Our food system balances perilously on the edge of collapse. Our political system is an…