Losing Weight and Taking Control of Your Life

I lost 60 pounds in about a year and I’ve kept it off for 2 years. People tend to ask me “how?” I never thought I’d be the type to write about losing weight, but I also used to think I’d be obese my entire life. The film Dodgeball perfectly sums up…

American Schizophrenia and How to Avoid It

In Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut pens an entire chapter describing a Nazi sympathizer…

Things I Learned Playing with Refugees

My neighborhood is one of those newly engineered developments designed to enable low-income families to live alongside affluent households. Despite the design’s intent, wealthier people end up hanging out with other wealthy people and lower income families do…

26 Ways to Drive Women Crazy

American men have never had it better. The intersection of capitalism and patriarchy has really set them up…

Picking the Battle For Yourself

Everyone has heard it in some context: pick your battles.

This sentiment can come in other forms, like being asked to suppress anger, add slack to your moral compass, be less “emotional,” or shrugging it off as tough shit. And yes, all of those…