Sometimes silence is the sound of someone learning. The sound of someone refraining from speaking impulsively and under pressure. The sound of someone observing, listening, watching.
You cannot listen if you are speaking.
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Bodily autonomy is perhaps the dearest value I hold. It is our most intimate freedom, one that I consider a most sacred and basic right.
It is from this perspective that I feel compelled to share an argument against vaccine mandates.
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My Instagram feed is shouting at me today with reasons to hate on billionaires who go to space, the latest of whom is Sir Richard Branson. Elon Musk has sent rockets to space since 2008 and Jeff Bezos is set for his own personal space launch next Monday, July 20th. Why don’t they invest that money into building communities for the unhoused? Insta-activists assert.
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The Human Brain Project plans to replicate the human brain in a computer in ten years. MIT is working to give you a “socially intelligent robot partner.” RoboEarth is where robots will expand…
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I’m about to share some very personal information with you. It’s not going to be pretty, or feel good, or perhaps even make sense. It could be more prudent of me to…
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“What advice would you give teenage girls?” the host of the program asked.
I paused, the rhythm of our back-and-forth banter jolted. Thoughts raced through my head…
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“I hate women who say they can eat whatever they want, because I don’t relate to that at all.” - Drew Barrymore
Well, Ms. Barrymore, you caught me on a bad day…
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“I used to think that life was too short,” I said to my friend Taryn, “but I realized that actually, it’s too long. Life is too long, and too lonely and miserable, not to…”
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Told you it was about to get heavy.
I’d like to open this post with a parable from Neale Donald Walsch’s “Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue.” I just completed the trilogy, and while…
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Since this blog is about to get fairly weighty, I thought I’d throw in a more uplifting post! I was having lunch with a friend a few days ago and we were talking about…
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Yesterday, I turned 27. (Yay!) As often happens for me around this time of year, I find myself contemplating the rabbit hole of astrology. I’ve never fully understood how…
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I’ve always firmly believed that invading someone else’s privacy is wrong. Reading their emails, searching their diaries, logging into their Facebook account, going through their texts…
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For my first post in 2013, I'd like to say welcome to the new domaine for my blog and hello to all my new fans and fellow ponderers! So excited you have found me, for here in the…
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“Do you see the fifth leg?” asked Bradley, our dry-humored safari guide. It only took milliseconds for us to find it. Goodness, how could we miss it? When Thirst Project does a donor trip…
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Few of us now need any introduction to the campaign that is Kony 2012. If, somehow, you’ve managed to miss the thirty-minute documentary that’s owned YouTube all week…
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The entertainment industry has made great strides for women as of late in terms of comedy, thanks to brilliant and hilarious ladies like Kristen Wiig, Sarah Silverman, and Mindy Kaling, among others… But where are the dramas?!
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This is a topic I broach with great trepidation, although I know I am not alone. There may be no more personal subject in the world than an individual’s decision to have a child or not…
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To have a baby, or not to have a baby? That is the anxious question.
Most of my LA girlfriends and I are in our mid-20s now. It’s starting to matter in primal ways…
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