Mental health has been a major concern in recent years and with good reason, more than 300 million people worldwide live with depression, according to the World Health Organization. The figure...
My son has a friend who was forced to leave the Ukrainian city of Dnipro with his family last year. My son’s friend is a serious and studious boy, the kind of child able to excel even in a...
Welcome to the next in the Podcast Showcase series, where we share podcasts with you in the words of the podcasters themselves. This time, we talk to Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan. Sum...
This week, the journalist Lauren Wolfe published an article in Foreign Policy about how Russian leadership is afraid of “psychic attacks” from the West. Lauren spoke to me for the article and it...
Towns can be like people, some more Christmas-loving and others more grinchy. And if you are like the former, you've probably dreamed of experiencing a fairytale Christmas, where the streets have...
Years ago, when I was in college, a couple of friends of mine ran into Volodymyr Zelensky when buying alcohol for one of our parties, outside of a big supermarket in downtown Kyiv, not far from where...
In the popularized American version of Christmas, the religious celebration displays many natural and cultural aspects of Western Europe. Think of snow, a fir tree, and reindeer; or Christmas...
People are drinking less than ever. According to a 2021 Gallup poll, 60% of Americans say they drink. That’s down from 65% in 2019. While that number might not seem all that staggering, it’s an...
“The whole universe. Alive. And me, a part of it.” So says a dying old man right before he draws his final breath. There are many things to be said about the adaptation of Sarah Perry’s “The...
Welcome to the next in the Podcast Showcase series, where we share podcasts with you in the words of the podcasters themselves. This time, we talk to Salty Sex Cast. Sum up your podcast in three...