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As I write this, I’m in the heart of Denver in a coffee shop that I could only describe as… exactly what you’d expect a Denver coffee shop to be. It’s a warehouse closet with one wall covered in grass...

The 1950s Montgomery Bus Boycotts thrust Martin Luther King Jr. into the limelight. MLK, then a young and relatively unknown pastor, began to rise as a prominent leader and voice in the Civil Rights M...

Happy New Year, fam! Some say you can’t say HYN after January 7th. I say f*ck ‘em, we’re going to extend my favorite holiday a few more weeks.

As I mentioned last week, I get reflective at this ti...

I was raised by a brilliant optimist. My mom has this superpower where she can take the most boring, mundane, and even frustrating circumstances and make them fun or memorable. She'd turn a playgro...

My first love was round, orange in color, and full of air. And I'm not being disrespectful to an ex. My childhood memories are filled with images of me and a basketball. It was my form of meditation, ...

The night before the 2024 presidential election, I was in the back of a Toyota 4Runner listening to my Uber driver, Selemani, talk about the differences between the United States and his home country ...

A Mexican fisherman docked his boat where he always did, right on the edge of his tiny village.

An American tourist walking by noticed the fisherman and complimented him on the quality of his fish. 

In 2011, I got caught up in the positive psychology movement. For the uninitiated, positive psychology is the scientific study of life's finer emotions and experiences – joy, happiness, fulfillment, l...

I’ve told this story before, but it feels like an appropriate time to real tell it because 1) my sister is in town and we love to laugh at my father’s quips that nobody seems to understand except his ...

"You say you're going to do a lot of things, but you never actually do them." 

Damn.

That hurt when she said it. Still hurts now. I thought she was supposed to be my friend? I assumed she'd like the...

A friend and I were recently talking about a popular philosophical question: are humans inherently evil? Like many philosophers, religions, and psychologists before us, we landed on different ends of ...

I'm on a bus heading back to Austin, coming off an awesome leadership workshop in Houston, and had two thoughts:

1) "Wow, look at how far buses have come." In college, I used to bounce around on Grey...