A few months ago, while casually browsing Reddit, I came across this image. It deeply struck me and sent me down a rabbit hole of research into what occurred. In this photo, Keshia Thomas, 18, is using her body to protect an alleged KKK member, Albert McKeel Jr., from a brutal beating during a rally in her hometown in Michigan, in 1996. We have all heard the cliché phrase “don’t fight fire with fire,” and while many of us understand it intellectually — in a non-symbolic actual fire situation...

Can we talk for a second about how difficult it is to make mom (or parent) friends? I just got back from an awesome coffee date with a mom at my daughter’s school and felt inspired to write this. There’s something about motherhood—parenthood in general—that I’ve observed: a trend where people almost forget they were individuals before they became parents. And this isn’t to take anything away from the beauty and bliss that parenthood can bring (between the sleepless nights and the umpteenth...

Back in 2018, after a decade of working in TV production, I fell into a rather lengthy period of "Funemployment". …and for those not...