Tag: mental health in America

This week, I wrote a Facebook post about how unpleasant it is when smelly men hit on me in discourteous ways. A man immediately messaged me to explain what I was doing wrong and how I could prevent...

I never asked to be a woman. The more spiritual people I know will probably disagree. “Oh, we all agree on the life we lead before we get to this world.” Maybe, there’s something to it. Still,...

One of my favorite, so to speak, people in Washington D.C. is finally facing criminal charges. That’s right, congressman George Santos stands accused of violating campaign finance laws and other...

I’m lucky to have friends who live in many different places. Some are in London, others in NYC. A large concentration of people I love lives in Kyiv, though many are displaced because of the war....

I am catastrophically bad at lying. It’s why I could never be a spy (no matter what awful men with strange fantasies say about me online), or work in politics for that matter. Having said that,...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

It’s Thanksgiving week in the United States again, and this year I’m really grateful to be thoroughly in love with this country. It’s not the world’s most ideal relationship and, as the man...