Death is a natural part of life. Except it’s not. Death, by definition, is the antithesis of life. It may be natural and universal, but once you’re dead, any direct relationship you had with the living ends with it. The following is death advice for teenagers – the ones who will never read it: Want […]
Read More →Here’s where I admit I’m accidentally racist, but I tone it down by creating a new word. I’ll also share the blame by noting that everyone – black, white, yellow, green – has racist tendencies. We can’t separate our lives from how we were raised, and when it comes to equality, we’re all, in […]
Read More →My kids forced me to say things. Some statements are universal in parenting, such as “Because I said so, that’s why.” Some statements not so much. We often assume intelligence in our offspring only to be disappointed. My son once asked permission to stick his head through a screen door. Kudos for asking, but surely, […]
Read More →We universally agree: Mentally ill people shouldn’t have guns. Guns kill, and some mentally ill people have bizarre reasons to pull the trigger. That agreement, however, is the problem. It makes the ban-guns-to-the-mentally-ill initiative sound like a solution to the upswing in violent U.S. mass killings – which it is. But it also makes it […]
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