Good people need to recognize their acceptance of bias — A couple of weeks ago, a woman I’d never heard of said on the radio that the people who were committing violence under the auspices of protest weren’t “n-words” but was it okay to say they were acting “n-word-ly.” Apparently in her version of reality, a “n-word” exists. To her…

What I Learned About Adverse Childhood Experiences — There’s an episode of the Showtime series Shameless where Carl Gallagher is trying to get into West Point, but his grades aren’t good enough. His girlfriend suggests that he apply for an ACE exemption. She explains that the academy reserves spots for applicants who have suffered childhood trauma — or…

I caught myself being a bad human the other day. I was walking to a lunch spot a block away from my office. When I got to the door I looked inside and saw one of my coworkers waiting for her order. We’ve worked together a couple of years. But…

“We should hike,” she said from behind her laptop. It was the first she had spoken two hours. Since she’d asked me if the bathroom trash needed emptying. Before heading out in the hallway to the chute with the kitchen trash. “This weekend,” she said more definitively than asking. Our…

I just heard that the Emmys weren’t woke. — Word on the street is that the Emmys weren’t woke. I’ll admit it — that news nearly made me spit out my Pumpkin Spice Latte. What in the holy hell? An award show that hands out accolades to shows with androids and dragons simply didn’t give enough air time to…

The Night My Mom Brought Us a Fake Pizza — “You shouldn’t just make people if you’re going to abandon them. Because then they think they’ve done something wrong their whole lives.” — Alyssa to her father, “The End of the F***ing World” 2017 My mom had just brought us a fake pizza. Not a knock-off frozen pizza from the…