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What does it mean to have a voice?
There is something about singing, particularly in community, that touches a nerve. When I get emotional at these times it is usually when I am also at a…
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The best of me and the rest of me: Prayer for a New Year
Dear Lord, Creator, divine Spirit of What Is, let me take the best of me into the coming year. I almost added, “and leave the rest behind,” but that’s…
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Finding queerness, Britney Spears, the Bad Art Friend, and superyachts in the classics
If the Gatsby characters were alive today, I’m pretty sure the Buchanans would own a superyacht, where the rich go to escape — the paparazzi, their…
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When you need a mask to be brave
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When you refuse to punch down for cheap laughs
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On judging other people
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When you can't un-see the patterns
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When shame loosens its grip
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The friendly place where everyone owns a gun
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Three lessons from a Kindness Warrior
Eleanor came into my life at just the right time. It was early 2013 and my mother had died three months earlier after a grinding, multi-year onslaught…
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The friendly place where everyone owns a gun
Why I bought a raffle ticket for an AR-15
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When you refuse to punch down for cheap laughs
Or, Lessons from a sex comedy
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When shame loosens its grip
Airing out what had felt so shameful was like disinfecting sticky gunk accumulated over decades of false belief.
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When you need a mask to be brave
Why striving to be "authentic" at all times is misguided
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What are you loving right now?
What is lighting up your happy button these days?
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A tale of two parking spots
A parable of taking up space and of ceding ground
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Desert Owl Among the Ruins
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