For the longest time I was sure I was going to die alone and never be part of another family besides my nuclear birth family. It’s not that I am not a sentimental and romantic fool, but I just never foresaw the reality that is with Fatema, my wife. Being…

The GOP/Republicans denying science in mutating COVID, and vaccinating kids has us in a tight spot. The funding for further vaccine developments and distributing those vaccines into arms is close to all gone. Imagine a reality where there are more variants but no money to develop or dispense a lifesaving…

We can choose to ignore 240 years of history for racist, illogical hubris of one part of our multiracial, multicultural, and multilingual liberal democracy. Or we can choose to self-sabotage our struggling fully functional democracy. The messiness of democracy is why it is so great in the minds of the…

The more the economy, government, and society seem to be coming apart at the seams. At the same time, I am praying my wife, Fatema, is here soon. I worry if we will run for our lives from fascists. She foreign a woman of color and I a seemingly white…

A question came out in therapy the other day, “Should you love yourself before someone else?” My life had made me agree 1,000% that I had myself first. I was a virgin and never dated anyone before my wife. So, that dictates that I agree, but I can see that…

I live in Texas, land of “my body, my choice, and efff your health!”. I am constantly the only person in the room with a N-95 mask on STILL. Do I worry or feel peer pressure to rip off my mask and try to blend in? NO! My health is…

In a time of hate, unrest, and climate devastation, remembering great human accomplishments is needed. The moon landing being the most out of this world, pun intended, feat humankind has ever succeeded in doing, and the biggest thing humans will do until we reach Mars. …

I heard this question on an advertisement for a kid’s news show, but this one just made me consider who I would say “created” Russia. What one person would I, as a historian, say created Russia. I had a “History of Russia” class one semester in grad school, so I…