Brighter Thoughts

What does happiness look like? I’ve seen it, once or twice. It is magical.

Listen. I know you’re hurting. I know that you did not grope, did not rape, did not molest. I understand you feel the broad brush is…

One parent’s solution to her children’s religious questions

Why we all struggle with body image — here’s what we can do about it.

Allowing ourselves to feel joy for what we have, rather than pain for what we lack.

The challenges that keep us from showing ourselves, the benefits of being real.

The Moms came prepared. Most of them have some form of protective headgear on. They’re expecting trouble. They’re not scared.

We are only taught convenient history. We’re only taught white history. And so we remain cluelessly white, ignorantly white.

“Political Correctness,” and how language gives permission to the worst in us

BlackLivesMatter isn’t a protest because George Floyd was a hero. BLM protests ordinary black people dying, because of systemic racism.

But all they do is rearrange your fridge magnets to spell out self-care and helpful messages…

Surrogacy today is a far cry from the way it’s depicted in Mia Warren’s storyline in Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere

Three key tips for parents of teenagers — especially queer teenagers

This is the messy, dirty, exhausting and wondrous adventure called life

On hearing the news of John Lewis’ cancer diagnosis

And neither is that cup of Starbucks coffee.

What has replaced the Judeo-Christian values, he asks

We don’t call them concentration camps.

Just something wrong with my brain, folks. Nothing to see here.

Is Eurocentric culture dying out?

The thing that hurts the most are the things left unsaid.