What I learned after years of big gestures missing the point, and the small habit that replaced them.

I write because I am terrified of forgetting. Not the mundane forgetting of where I placed my keys or what I ate for breakfast, but something more profound — the forgetting of who I was at a ...

(RNS) — Since childhood, I’ve been a regular target of ignorance and bigotry. My experience contributed to my becoming a scholar of history and religion, but more than that, it has given me a clearer ...

My first book, The Digital Fourth Amendment, came out last month. I wanted to write some posts on the book over the next week. And I figured I should start with the most fundamental question: Why on ...

Unless they're independently wealthy, I don't believe anyone should work for free. However, I will admit that I have written for free. And I continue to do so somewhat compulsively. You see, there's ...

Former hospice and oncology nurse and the founder & CEO of Doulagivers Institute Former hospice and oncology nurse and the founder & CEO of Doulagivers Institute Have you ever lost a loved one who ...

Most education coverage in America focuses on teachers, professors, or the institutions themselves. The system, not the student, dominates the headlines. We hear endlessly about teachers’ unions, ...

“Моя американка” — my American — hits harder than a punch in the gut. It is hurled without warning from my mother's lips. Just as innocently and quietly, her disdain for my thick American accent and ...

I've been writing about body image for two years now, without stopping to think about why I'm doing it. It happened naturally. Sometimes, when people asked me what I was writing about, I'd laugh a ...