Gold, Dictators, and the Trump Connection That’s Been Hiding in Plain Sight
I can't stop thinking about the Philippines. I've been fascinated by the country for years now. It started with Filipino co-workers and my curiosity about their
Somewhere I'll never be.
I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a writer, not in the sense of success or craft, just in terms of what actually happens. What we make.
Recovery Theater
If you leave a twelve-step adherent alone in a room with a bottle and no escape, they will drink. Not because they crave alcohol, but because they cannot bear to
It's not Just Data.
We used to be protected by friction. If someone wanted to know what you said, they had to be there. They had to listen. They had to care. That effort, the act of witnessing, was part of the social contract. You could speak freely because you trusted the weight of the moment would carry your meaning.
Thoughts on wisdom
I don’t internalize wisdom because I hear it; I internalize it because I live it.
The Internet Never Forgets—But Should It?
Mistakes get screenshotted and immortalized, leaving people with a kind of digital scarlet letter.
Is the Special Olympics Preventing Athletes from Competing in the Olympics?
The Special Olympics has been a powerful positive force in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people with intellectual disabilities, inspiring vast improvements in physical fitness and healthcare (it&
Cooking Up Hard Lessons
In early 2004, I returned to Oregon seeking a fresh start after two dark years shaped by hopelessness and bad choices. Alongside Ed, a sociopath to the core, I’d
Forward Together
It feels like we're moving at warp speed, the world spinning faster than we can keep pace. The future looms, a vast unknown, stirring our collective anxiety. It&
Reading/listening comprehension - Our education system has failed us. Jonathan Glazer's Oscar Speech.
All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say, ‘Look what they did then’; rather, ‘what we do now,' Our film shows