sociology

first impressions matter

We first chatted on Facebook. We were perhaps ‘friends’ who didn’t actually know each other. I may have seen him on Grindr or a sex app,...

second half-life mantra

I’m writing a book on my mid-life crisis it would seem. A mantra for the second half-life has begun to emerge this catharsis: Talk to who...

a phalanx of neutral characters

A friend and colleague once asked me a few times, why I care so much? I was recently home to Tennessee and I was reminded of the...

what i didn’t learn at swarthmore

I didn’t learn anything at swarthmore. I did not take a class on logic there whereby I gained an ivy league sense of rationale. I do not...

betrayal

You came in the form of a year. 2017 to be precise. You were not one or the other of its happenstances. You were the sum of its parts....

an ode to email

Oh email. You are not you. You are not Gertrude or Renato, Daniel or Danielle. You are not George or Sidd, Rapha or Paula. You are not...

polymathematical

I did not speak bad about you. I spoke about you. My personality is not so much multiple, but simply different with each passing day. We...

questioning our affiliation

I started looking at white, gay, alpha, cis-gendered males in a whole new light, basically questioning our affiliation.

cost of family

Economizing relations, proximity and in some ways healthcare. Walking to the Copan to have a tedious phonecall with my mother. It...

águas de março

I have been waiting months to access the funds in my Banco Brasil account. It’s a small amount. After three months without transactions...

actionable advice from the inlaws

The end of last year was not as I had planned. I think living across two different cultures and cities has taught me not to sweat the...

tectonic shift

I read about ten books at a time. But sometimes a book can take over a year to read in that configuration. The state of not wanting to...

food service

I remember telling one of my political science professors that I was interested in food service. In creating the space for political...

Dark nap of the soul

I just woke up from the worst dream ever. I didn’t sleep well last night and began watching news footage about the Boulder mass shooting...