I’ve Worked at the Same Grocery Store for 26 Years. You Have No Idea Who’s Bagging Your Groceries.

The guy stocking cereal might have gone to law school. Stop assuming.

What Remains After the Jacarandas Bloom

Gratitude, Distance, and the Quiet Weight of an Argentine Summer

I’m Not Dead…Yet

On procrastination, personal power, and learning to rebuild trust with myself.

Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Stuck

Comfort zones are just highly organized prisons. It’s time to start chipping away at the routine

Our Lack of Privilege Is a Privilege

Maybe the things we think we can’t live without are the things we need to rethink

What Did We Give Up When We Donned the Gay-Respectability Straightjacket?

Did we trade our uniqueness for a seat at the heteronormative table?

Peter Pan and Wendy

An insult helped me realize I’d grown up

The Stranger Who Saved Me

Colin G. Campbell — 32400 South Highway 1

I Was a Good Soldier

Then I was nothing

What’s Dinner Like for You, Mr. Gay, at the Table with Friends and Family?

After we come out, we can struggle to unlearn habits and defense mechanisms that kept us safe.

Sometimes You Have to White-Knuckle Your Writing Life

Because real life will always get in the way.

The Ineffectual Opposition

The other big reason politics is so bad in the United States

Patrick Stewart Was the Best of Both Worlds. Fiction and Reality.

He watched his father beat his mother, then spent sixty years showing that authority doesn’t need anger to work. Farewell, mon capitaine.

The One Thing We Will Always Do Better Than AI

Where to get the kind of skills that gets you hired

My Father Was a Good Man. Just Ask Everyone Who Never Had to Be His Son.

My father, Howard Leonard Condrey, died recently in a motorcycle accident.

Remembering the 2024 Election Night in Texas

How it felt as the parent of a trans kid

The Case for Joy

What the research tells us about public space and human flourishing

The Substance of Hunger

We Are Judges of Starvation

The Little Old Lady From Bletchley Park.

We are surrounded by interesting people. Most of them are quiet.