I have always tried to fight against the neediness of social media.
Glass Half Full, Opinion
Invisible pain can hurt a lot more than external injuries
I can’t help but notice vast differences between the way we respond to external versus internal pain.
Columnists, Cover, Opinion, Vantage Point
6 things you find when you go speed dating the night before Valentine’s Day
I wasn’t expecting to get much out of it, except maybe a free beer or two, but I ended up learning a lot from my first time speed dating.
Columnists, Glass Half Full, Opinion
To: me…Love, me
This holiday of love taps into our innermost feelings of self-hate, but we can do better.
Here's That Rainy Day, Opinion
Bring back the value of the individual voice in politics
“Splitting” from something – a relationship, a place or even an ideological bloc – usually evokes feelings of reduction or defeat, but it can also be a chance for regeneration.
Hurricane, Opinion, Vantage Point
Focus on resiliency, community strength after Irma
Working on post-hurricane coverage in the newsroom last week, I heard a staffer yell, “We should be out of rain by now,” as Miami’s daily rainy-season storm beat down on the windows. This idea that we deserve a moment of relief after a disaster is fundamentally human but unfortunately not how the world works. We…
Columnists, Here's That Rainy Day, Opinion
Running from hurricanes in the age of incuriousness
Since ancient times, man has forged explanations for the inexplicable. The ancient Mongolians claimed Earth rested on the back of a giant frog whose movements caused earthquakes. The Igorot people of the Philippines believed the eldest son of Lumawig, the Great Spirit, formed mountains when he sent water flooding over all of Earth, forcing the…
Columnists, Here's That Rainy Day, Opinion
Expect, accept discomfort in a society of differing perspectives
This summer, I spent a month working as the office coordinator at a music camp I attended as a child. I was excited to learn that we were presenting a class called Social Justice in Jazz, in which students discussed stereotypes in the context of jazz music (women don’t like long solos; white people over-intellectualize…
Opinion, Vantage Point
Netflix’s ‘13 Reasons Why’ portrays dangerous glorification of suicide
Warning: This column discusses the premise of the new Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” and contains mild spoilers. I suggest you continue reading despite spoilers to save the time, self-loathing and hopelessness that come from watching this series. I absolutely loathe “13 Reasons Why.” Based on Jay Asher’s young adult novel of the same name,…
Columnists, Vantage Point
Internet authoritarianism threatens shift away from democracy
The last degree of privacy enjoyed by internet users will soon be stripped in favor of communication corporations ability to track activity and slow or block service accordingly. Congress passed this bill last week, and President Trump is expected to sign it into law. Congressional Republicans and Donald Trump are doing this under the auspices…
Columnists, Here's That Rainy Day, Opinion
Twenty years of wisdom on the small things, the big ideas and everything in between
Last weekend was my 20th birthday. It also happened to be my deadline for this article. So while crouching over my laptop and getting an intellectual hard-on for politics is still one of my favorite pastimes, I wasn’t about to make that the highlight of my weekend. Instead, here’s a list of some of the…
Columnists, Opinion, Vantage Point
Trumpcare enabled by inattention, laughing off extreme campaign promises
It’s been an eventful couple of weeks in Trumpland. We’ve been introduced to a healthcare plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, a budget that cuts 30 percent of funds for the EPA and after-school meals for kids and another judicial hold on President Trump’s revised immigration bans. People voted for Trump because they didn’t like…