From one American to another — If you’ve endured the uncomfortable duty laid at the foot of every American and forced yourself to watch the video of Tyre Nichols’s brutal execution at the hands of Memphis Police officers, then you likely feel as I do. …

Here are a number of the subtle ways habits and expectations can work to cause imbalances in relationships — The dividing lines between these categories, like with most categories, can get a little blurry. …

Do you see what I see? — Ava had something of a secret. When she was in her early teens, she got a pair of unusual eyeglasses. When she looked through them, she gained a supernatural ability: She would see evidence for any truth she pondered. She would think to herself things such as, What really happened…

There’s a lot of bad and not too much good that comes from sharing the particulars of our relationship with others. — There’s a famous parable that you might’ve heard of: It’s about a group of blind men that encounter an elephant. None of the men had ever come across the animal before. They each extend out a hand and touch a different part of it—one the tusk, one the the leg…

A short story about subjectivity and epistemology — God once found a box. It was a small box, even by your standards or mine, but it was a special box. He would try to open it every day, but, for whatever reason, he simply could not. He sent floods, and lightning, and hell flame, but no matter what…

What can and cannot be joked about often highlights power dynamics within the social structure — Many times in my life, I’ve heard people ask the question I’ve posed in the title of this piece: “Why is it acceptable for Black people to make fun of White people, while White people making fun of Black people is largely off limits?” The premise assumed in the question…

It’s a lot easier to get real book sales if you use these few simple tactics — If you’re a long-term follower, you know that I don’t believe in rushing your writing process or putting anything out just because it’ll be good clickbait and likely to generate sales. I simply respect the craft too much for that. …

Technological trends are driving an evolution in the “product” as we know it, from something physical to something purely informational. — Information has always had enormous value. The human brain is nothing without its inputs. Our ability to create and process language allowed for a transfer of knowledge between generations, which by way of constant accumulation, has created the advanced and complex societies we find ourselves in today. Written word augmented…

Apologies are more complicated than we realize. There’s a lot that goes into an apology, and for the average person, there’s a lot to apologize for. Often, to make an apology feels like a hill to climb. Why is it so difficult to apologize when making mistakes is so common? …