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It’s early 2002 and I’m driving to work with the radio sharing heartbreaking news of the deployments and death of troops in Afghanistan. A beat-up car passes me on the highway with huge patches of rust on the hood and a trash bag where one of the windows should be. On the back bumper is...
When I do my morning run I generally listen to an Audible book, or a podcast. My podcast subscriptions run the gamut from geek culture chats (mostly Star Wars) to self help and relationship discussions, to author interviews and perspectives. One of the podcasts that crosses over many of these motifs is the Sarah Silverman...
Fall 2017 began the first waves of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. Survivors, mostly female, finding the strength to publically warn the world about the terrible things their attackers had done filled me with such joy and hope. Yet the uncovering of each new famous sexual predator brought back vivid and terrible memories. Their accounts...
Last week the film adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling novel “IT” premiered in theaters with record-breaking results. Audiences flocked to their local cinemas to watch a film about a supernatural clown named Pennywise who terrorizes and devours the unsuspecting children of the small fictional town of Derry. Unfortunately, most of the people buying tickets to...