Category: The Discourse

  • Crossroads: Reflection on Words, Fear, and Growth in Creativity

    “You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature…

  • Blue, White, and Crimson

    “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” ~ Ida B Wells Another one…

  • The Man Who Had Nothing and Everything All At Once

    “Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” ~Honoré de Balzac There once was a man who had nothing at…

  • The Cost of Wonder

    “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” ~Mary Oliver When was it when we stopped looking to the stars for answers?…

  • Verity

    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” ~ Oscar…

  • Hot Take: Human Sexuality

    “Sex is apart of nature. I go along with nature.” -Marilyn Monroe It wasn’t a peculiar morning that got me…

  • A Table Talk: Holidays, Family, and Fiber

    “Even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go…

  • Love Thy Neighbor

    Life has been a lot different since the year the world stood still. COVID exposed us to a world of…

  • Put Some Respect On It

    I’ve been thinking a lot about the word respect. Something we have all heard and we have all definitely been…

  • Forgotten Talk

    “That’s all small talk is – a quick way to connect on a human level – which is why it…