Note: If you adhere to strict religious doctrines (including atheism), this account may feel heretical to you. I did not write this to challenge your path, so please accept it as just one man’s story. — When I was 25, I sustained an injury that put me in the hospital for two weeks. From the moment of impact to the moment I arrived in the operating room, more than six hours passed. I lost a lot of blood.

We read because we want to be inspired. — When you stare at a blank page, you are not inspired and you feel stuck. The page doesn’t offer you anything. It just is. It has no emotion. What you need is ways to trigger the emotions that are linked to all your inspiration locked inside. The next time writer’s…

Otherwise You’ll Be Called Lazy — To hear the snobs tell it, people just don’t want to work. This idea is blasted from the digital rooftops like church bells ringing across the landscapes of old when an enemy attacked. Or tornado sirens. Take your metaphorical pick. There is definitely a slow-moving catastrophe befalling us. But the…

Turns out, it’s hard to stop a bully — Andrea Coleman would like us to talk about female bullies. I agree we should make this a safe topic to broach. So here’s my story. The Situation I recently witnessed a woman smack the living daylights out of her son and I stood by and did nothing. Well, not exactly nothing —…

Most people think of affordable housing as something built for poor people. — Why do so many of us tolerate outrageous monthly housing costs? My theory is it proves we’re not poor. So we spend ourselves into the poor house in order to prove we’re not … going there? This is why “affordable” is no longer a useful way to discuss middle class…

As I’m reading Clinton’s leaked emails, I’m struggling to understand what’s so scandalous about them. We already knew all this, right? She’s Establishment to the core of her Methodist soul. So what? The conspiracy theorists have always hated her for it and always will. No news there. She takes the…