I just finished binge-watching “Station Eleven” on HBOMax. It was a weird but strangely compelling story. It jumped all over the globe and the timeline, but everything came together perfectly in the final episode. As the final credits were rolling, I realized that all stories are just one story: the…
I read this story on Humans of New York this morning and was reminded that this is similar to how I feel about my dad, now. Same sort of “monster” feeling when he was in the house when I was a child, for many of the same reasons. But I loved…
I learned a LOT about forgiveness this year. The most important thing I learned is that forgiveness is a trick you play on yourself. Your resistance to forgiveness is usually rooted in not letting the other person get away with what he did to you. But the lesson is that…