During my formative years whenever anyone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up I said, a veterinarian.
Model Behavior
Each day we each model behavior and thoughts that cause waves in the world around us and creates the reality in which we live.
Damage Control
I create beauty in places other people destroy or [allow to] break.
Sides
People seem more committed to taking a side than in being in real conversation and connection with others. Coincidentally, at least three friends ...
Skinfolk
Recently, I’ve had to manage a situation in which a group of people conspired to keep my voice silent and erase my contributions. It is so ...
Angels & Outcasts
My dad’s library occupied the south wall of my playroom, the converted garage where my brother and I spent the bulk of our time when we weren’t ...
Mind and Body
When I was a kid, there was a park near our house that we just called Lake Elizabeth. My parents would take us there to feed the ducks and play. ...
The Path and the Pack
“Every woman is the leader of her own life.” -Abby Wambach When I take stock of the life I’ve built for myself and the friendships I have around ...
A Clean, Well-Lighted Life
A couple months ago I decided to take a class on Jewish meditation at the Chabad Intown. With very little knowledge of what I was stepping into, ...
Gratitude and the Inevitability of Death
I held my dad’s hand the night he died. Through four to five hours of hallucinations and fear and struggles to run beyond his own consciousness. ...
Elite Adjacent
I think it is only at this point in my life that I realize how hidden this other Black reality – shared by everyone with whom I grew up mind you ...
On Peace
How do we talk about peace without recognizing the hypocrisy of how it is practiced by us as individuals? To value peace is to value life and ...
The Hidden City
Every once in a while – if you’re lucky and paying attention – you catch a glimpse of life beyond the known world. What you see may ignite a ...
Language and Cities
B’reishit bara Elohim. In the beginning of… [1] Language is everything. It informs the way we think, create, and order our world. When we ...
Why Publishing’s Diversity Problem is Also Technology’s Diversity Problem
Every creation begins with the words, or as they say in the tech world, the story. Technology is as much about stories as it is about the ...