DIFFERENT DAY, SAME GOD
One of my favorite places to get dessert is CRUMBL Cookies. It’s a cookie chain that serves giant fresh baked cookies in a brilliantly bright pink box. The…
MEMOIRS OF A SANDWICH
I am a sandwich. Well, metaphorically … I guess I could more accurately say that I am a member of the “sandwich generation,” a loose term for the…
MAKING SENSE OF THE CHAOS: ARE WE LIVING IN POSTNORMAL TIMES?
An era in which old orthodoxies are dying, new ones are emerging, and very few things seem to make sense. – Ziauddin Sardar There is tension in today’s…
IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
Raising a toddler is an exercise in madness. It’s like going to war every day with a clinically insane enemy, losing to said enemy, and still being profoundly…
IN THE GRIP OF MODERNITY: THE VALUE OF HISTORY
Historian in-coming, as they say on social media reels: There never was a normal. That’s not what we want to hear, because we want to think there’s stasis,…
THE ACCIDENTAL ADVENTIST
“The world and everyone in it is passing strange, except for me and thee—and even thou art a little strange.” That was my grandfather, a teacher and historian,…