Tag: Searching

My brother called last weekend and informed me that one of his best friends had gone missing. My brother lives in Reno and his friend recently moved in with his mom relatively close to my house here in Southern California. My brother felt the pull to come down here and search for his missing frie...

Academia has scarred me, and I am not sure I will recover, but the alternatives might have been worse. I don’t know whether pursuing other avenues (the industry, as some colleagues would call it) would have saved me from experiencing this forever sense of doom. Perhaps it is just a natural ...

In recent years, issues of race, gender, privilege and bias have remained unresolved as society struggles with the economics of identity and class equity. Communities that are directly harmed by these unresolved conflicts are often left to also manage the fallout that results from the harm. Without ...

2023 has been, well, rough. Coming off five years of chaos, we all hoped that 2023 would be a step in the right direction towards normalcy, but in fact, it’s been the opposite; political turmoil and migrant surges and lingering inflation and now, two wars on the other side of the world have tu...

I recognize that my posts about the wonders of international travel are coming at a time of great discord in the world. While what’s happening is horrendous, my commitment — and writing — continues in the spirit of envisioning that we can all “become better” through fos...