Tension vs. Competition

Tension: 1. the act of stretching or straining. 2. the state of being stretched or strained. 3. mental or emotional strain: suspense, anxiety, or ...

A Curiously Lived Life

One morning back in 2012 as I was ringing a customer up at my store, a question was posed to me: what’s your spiritual practice? The question ...

Keep Moving

Yesterday, the Peachtree Road Race–an annual 10K that brings thousands of runners into and through the city of Atlanta–stretched for miles as we ...

Networks

Early summer brings me peace. The neighborhood where I live hollows out as residents peel off to their holiday houses by the ocean, in the ...

Curiosity

Since childhood, fiction provided me a place to let my imagination soar and my moodiness root. Whether I was identifying with Colin’s ...

Patience

Balanced self-assessment has never been my strong suit. One reason could be that I don’t think in relative terms, I think in personal terms. ...

Risk

Sport has always been a part of my life. Early efforts at tetherball and tennis taught me coordination, while basketball and track in middle ...

Sides

People seem more committed to taking a side than in being in real conversation and connection with others. Coincidentally, at least three friends ...

Skinfolk

Recently, I’ve had to manage a situation in which a group of people conspired to keep my voice silent and erase my contributions. It is so ...

Angels & Outcasts

My dad’s library occupied the south wall of my playroom, the converted garage where my brother and I spent the bulk of our time when we weren’t ...

Mind and Body

When I was a kid, there was a park near our house that we just called Lake Elizabeth. My parents would take us there to feed the ducks and play. ...

The Path and the Pack

“Every woman is the leader of her own life.” -Abby Wambach When I take stock of the life I’ve built for myself and the friendships I have around ...

A Clean, Well-Lighted Life

A couple months ago I decided to take a class on Jewish meditation at the Chabad Intown. With very little knowledge of what I was stepping into, ...

Gratitude and the Inevitability of Death

I held my dad’s hand the night he died. Through four to five hours of hallucinations and fear and struggles to run beyond his own consciousness. ...

Elite Adjacent

I think it is only at this point in my life that I realize how hidden this other Black reality – shared by everyone with whom I grew up mind you ...

On Peace

How do we talk about peace without recognizing the hypocrisy of how it is practiced by us as individuals? To value peace is to value life and ...

The Hidden City

Every once in a while – if you’re lucky and paying attention – you catch a glimpse of life beyond the known world. What you see may ignite a ...

Language and Cities

B’reishit bara Elohim. In the beginning of… [1] Language is everything. It informs the way we think, create, and order our world. When we ...