Virtual hugs and air kisses, unexpected blessings, and micro-gratitude moments — Dear <Firstname>, I started this holiday newsletter in August, which seemed like it should have been the end of the year already, or in case I didn’t survive the Quarendemicopalypse. Hope this finds you as well as can be expected considering the new unprecedented normal challenging times we are facing…

The road ahead is long. The climb is steep. But still, I have the audacity to hope. — Every day seems to bring a new Covid record, a climate disaster, or a heartbreaking injustice. But I remember a time of hope. In 2008, I wrote about a prescient poem by a high school senior in Honolulu, Hawai’i. If we have learned anything from Greta Thunberg and K-pop stans…

Because real life is messy, it hurts, and sometimes you get stuck with the rotten apple Beginning in May 2020, protests began rocking not just the United States, but over a dozen countries worldwide. Black or blue, red or white, yellow or purple — we have so much to learn…