In the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a day to give thanks and to ask God to “heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.”

Making human connections over a little something sweet and a cup of something bitter and warm

An anthropologist studies her own

Parenting (and for that matter "childing") is infinitely iterative, creative empathy

About survival, life, love, truth and art. With dad jokes.

On wonder and creative mourning

"They haven't found a way to destroy us yet."