After recently watching the 2014 film Force Majeure by Ruben Östlund, it reminded me of the hard-earned wisdom that comes from age and experience. Specifically, the wisdom of understanding the paradox of the family vacation. …

You may have missed it, but back in 2017, Bandy Lee, M.D. organized and edited a book entitled The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. Laid out in 25 essays, psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health experts made the case that President Trump was a danger to the country and all…

I’m not an electrician or a plumber. I’m not someone who works on an assembly line or inputs numbers into a computer. I don’t cut hair and I work only on my own cars. And like most people, I’m not a coal miner. But I am the son of a…

I guess we should’ve seen this coming. When Facebook made it easy for anyone to create their own interest group in 2010, they didn’t really provide people with any guidelines or information on how to actually be an effective group leader. Facebook developers apparently sat around a table one day…

As science-fiction series The Expanse closes on its sixth and final episode of the supposedly final season of the show, one man seems to be held up as a kind of reluctant hero: James Holden. He is, after all, the independent Earther who, across the six series, remains true to…

Naomi Osaka withdrew from the French Open on May 31, 2021, saying she needed to “take some time away from the court” after being fined for not attending a press conference following her tennis match. …

Navigating the first stages of a memory problem is never easy. Post COVID-19 vaccination, I drove down to visit my also-vaccinated family in Delaware this past weekend. It was the first time I had made this trip in over 14 months. Prior to the pandemic, I would visit about every other month. This is something I started doing when my dad’s…

With another holiday season approaching, many families plan on getting together again to catch-up and reconnect. Hopefully, given the raging pandemic in most states, these family get-togethers will be virtual. With more Americans believing conspiracy theories than ever before in recent history, such gatherings can be awkward for those unbelievers…

The novel coronavirus outbreak of 2020 and its resulting disease, COVID-19, lays bare one undeniable truth for office workers and their employers. Many (most?) employees don’t need to be working in the office to begin with. The Empty Promises of Offices Offices are supposed to be these magical collaborative environments where we meet our co-workers…