Category: Social issues

Over the past seven years, my two nieces, ages 28 and 30, must have been to no less than forty weddings in various states of the U.S. and a dozen different locations around the world. They’ve been to ...Read More →

Gen Z: Born 1997-2012 Millennials: Born 1981-1996 Gen X: 1965-1980 Boomers: 1946-1964 Silent: 1928-1945 Millennials are avid job hoppers, changing jobs more often than previous generations. Everyone...Read More →

One September morning in 2022, while waiting in line at a Venezuelan Embassy, I befriended a man by the name of Ivan Daniel. He was the person right before me, number 14 I reckon, as I was number 15 on...Read More →

Let’s get on the same page and agree on a definition for quiet quitting, seeing as different people use the term to refer to different work practices. I’m going with the language from a 17-second TikTok...Read More →

I live in a medium-sized upscale town with no visible homelessness, so I don’t often come across homeless people. When I write homeless, by the way, I mean people you might see in the streets of big...Read More →

Our friends Ana and Pedro came over one night to toast their purchase of a new home. They were really excited about the renovations they were planning, the shrubs they’d plant, the generator they’d...Read More →

You could say I'm obsessed with Jane Goodall, the 87-year-old British lady known for her crusade to preserve the natural world, and, in the process, save humanity. Goodall is one of those rare humans ...Read More →

I’m a preschool teacher and mother to two sons, ages 26 and 24. I’ve experienced and seen changes in parenting up close in the communities I inhabit. For the sake of context, I shall describe such...Read More →

About twelve years ago, my sister told me about a friend who’d said he’d prefer his daughter be a “puta” (Spanish for “whore”) over his son being gay. The saddest part of hearing this was realizing that...Read More →

The meaning of race and the baggage of racism vary a great deal from country to country. In the US, the weight of racism is definitely greater than it was (and hopefully still is) in Venezuela, my country...Read More →