The days of multiple suitcases, relying on customer service, and counting on in-flight snacks are gone. While once upon a time, travel culture may have been fairly straightforward, traveling has become a Darwinian endeavor. In the years before the pandemic, my family and I did several trips abroad with the…

Daylight-saving time and 5-days-in-the-office jobs are 20th century norms that are destroying 21st century people. There are many songs about time — -particularly its fleeting and finite quality. One especially poignant song, “Speak Low,” composed by Kurt Weill and written by Ogden Nash, in 1943, captures that bittersweet reality. “Time is so old and love so brief Love is pure gold and time a thief We´re late, darling, we´re late The curtain descends, everything ends too soon, too soon.”

Living like it’s 1977 — all over again. Exactly 45 years and 1 day after the Supreme Court decided that affirmative action was constitutional, but racial quotas were not, the decision was reversed with a 6–3 vote. …

How Celebrating Pride Improves Our Collective Mental Health and Makes Us Stronger — On June 10, 2023, 20,000 people celebrated Pride in my town, and it was a sight to behold. The only way to take it in was to be present for it. It wasn’t just about looking at all the amazing sights — the throngs of people, rainbow-themed picture booths for…

Elite education didn’t protect young men from the trauma of the Vietnam War. All the veterans of this war deserved better. My father attended a well-regarded boarding school in Connecticut in the 1960’s, where he was one of very few Black students. It was an all-boys’ school at the time…

What’s your personal word of the year? — Affirmations, incantations, and prayers. Official statements, one-on-one conversations, and public manifestoes. Spoken word poetry, declarations of love, and eulogies. We create our reality with the words we speak. We imbue our words with meaning. We use our words to describe our reality and to speak truth to power. We also…

Because carb-sparing makes me sad and I’m prone to depression. — A lunch date had been planned and the day had arrived. We were thrilled that it was nice enough to eat outdoors. The waitress brought a basket of warm bread. The soft scent of granular goodness wafted from under the hunter green cloth napkin used to cover it. …

Writing with relentless determination has opened unexpected portals to success and happiness. — Have you ever failed big? I have. Quite a bit, in fact. Recently even. Then there’s the other side. You know that delicious feeling of bouncing back and having a big win. I love that feeling. Don’t you? I’m still on a high from a recent win. This article is…

Looking back 16 years, it’s hard not to see all the innocence we have lost, and how sad it is. Introduction (April 2023): Looking Back Is 16 years a long time? It depends on what your point of reference is. When it comes to our political reality in the United…