Three hundred people were still working through the cake when my new father-in-law stood up, walked to the front of the Elks Temple, and picked up the microphone. He drove a truck for a living and was not a man who gave speeches, and he was holding a yellow legal
Ask the internet whether you should want to be rich and you'll get one answer, shouted from ten thousand directions. Of course you should!!! A whole economy of men in rented Lamborghinis has assembled to tell you so. Ask a certain kind of Christian and you'll
There you are, on the couch, three episodes into a show you don't even like, eating something engineered in a lab to go down easy in exactly this position. Same as last night. Same as the night before. On paper, you've got it good. You work
I watched a machine write in four seconds what I used to charge money for. It was a product description, the kind of small commercial writing I've done a thousand times. I typed in a few details and the screen filled with competent, faintly soulless copy. About as
There you are in the parking lot of a Target, watching a man in his forties lose his mind on his wife because she bought the wrong brand of paper towels. Full volume. Veins bulging in ways that veins aren't meant to expand. His kids are in the
This question has been rattling around in my head for years. When my church started a conversation about eldership and what it looks like, we dove right into the qualifications of an elder, and the "men only" part rubbed me the wrong way. Why only men? Shouldn'
A friend unfollowed me on Twitter. This was back in 2011, which means it was original Twitter, the good Twitter, the Twitter where your follower count still felt like it mattered. And my friend, a woman I respected, had just removed herself from mine. Not the sort of thing a