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I’ve been thinking a lot about history lately. Partly because for the last year, we’ve been continually reminded that we’re “living through history” right now. Mostly, this reminder is used to encourage people to care about our current situation, whether COVID or politics. It’s a warning to everyone that this is a time future generations will look back on and scrutinize. …

At the beginning of January, Hello Love published my essay called I Know You're Sleeping With My Boyfriend. It takes place during one particular day in my early twenties when I received a voicemail from the girlfriend of a guy I had recently started dating. Throughout a series of events, she and I spent the day together. Later the same evening, we also confronted him together.

This article received far more attention than anything else I’ve written. While I didn’t expect it to take off as it did, I get it. It’s an interesting story and probably not a situation…

Choices were made over the last few decades which accumulated and became responsible for the fall out of the last few years politically, systemically, socially, and environmentally speaking.

In some ways, it feels as though we’re on the brink as a species. Maybe it’s just me, but it appears our options are either to find our courage and change things around or, continue on this path and leave the world's children (and grandchildren) to deal with the consequences of our choices.

It stands to reason in times like these, that we should look to the past for answers. Ideally, we…

As a species, we have an obsession. We dream and search for other intelligent beings. We imagine magical witches and wizards. We search for aliens and create plans for when we meet one. We devise stories about mythical vampires and werewolves which get passed down through generations.

There are over 7.8 billion humans, yet we still feel alone. We don’t want to be the only intelligent species. We long to interact with others.

Well, it turns out that for thousands of years we weren’t alone. Not only were there other intelligent species, but they were humans. Some of them went…

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

— 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

Among other things, the first amendment means as an American, the government can not stop you from saying what you want. Freedom of speech is probably one of the most well-known parts of the United States constitution. …

Treat others how you wish to be treated, is a lesson of ethics from childhood that stuck to me like Silly Putty on my parent’s blue velvet couch. The goal of the phrase is to teach young humans how to socialize and cohabitate without using violence or cruelty. In terms of societal ethics, it makes a certain amount of sense.

But my younger self took it to heart. This simple mantra served as a measurement for my relationships, romantic or otherwise, well into my twenties. …

Out of all of our emotions, there’s one in particular which still eludes us. Even the definition of this emotion isn’t set in stone but rather is pliable in meaning and varies from person to person.

Most of us, though not all of us, experience it in one way or another. We logically know it’s important — yet struggle to act on it. Lately, it seems, we actively avoid it. The emotion I’m talking about, of course, is empathy.

Empathy is a biological emotion helping our species survive. Without it, infants would never live to adulthood because no one would…

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If you don’t already know, I have a seven-year-old fur child named Albert. He’s an opinionated Lhasa Apso, overly spoiled, and enormously loved. (I included a pic of him at the end) Yesterday, I took him for a walk. At one point, my earbuds pumped music into my skull and my gaze lingered on a crow amongst bare branches in a tree up ahead while Albert sniffed the millionth tree/bush/rock.

Then…