Because home keeps moving with every Covid-19 travel restriction. — I last saw my mother four years ago, in July of 2017. In her house, she hung an outdated calendar with a picture of a lovely young woman. On telling me that she kept the calendar because the girl on it reminded her of me, I threw it out and…

Guilt, courage, and hope — The nurse caught Coronavirus at work. She got a false-negative test result the first time and celebrated that she did not need to think of death and dying. But when the cold worsened, she got tested again and self-isolated as a precaution. It was, however, too late. Her mother died…

Because commemorative male statues relegate women’s leadership to the background — Many major cities in Africa are replete with monuments commemorating her tragic colonial history and the male power — both destructive and redemptive — at the heart of it all. …

Because it’s hard to love in a hurry — We stop to give form to offense and reshape it into beauty. For a world in a hurry, it’s hard to stop. Even the all of two minutes it takes to nuke our dinners seem a lengthy wait. We can’t stop. …

Finally, capitalism answers to common sense — Imagine yourself in your zen garden enjoying sublime peace. Then someone bursts into your personal, peaceful space shouting into a megaphone, “you are at peace! You are at peace!” You gain nothing new, and are left worked up too. After several petitions, the detrimental effects of click-bait content on reader…

But will this Black ‘Colonel Chamberlain’ receive any laurels? — A month ago, America experienced a Battle of Gettysburg moment, and her Col. Joshua Chamberlain was Black, Brown, or marginalized. Like Col. Chamberlain and how his battle of The Little Round Top influenced the course of the Civil War, minority voters contributed to the Democrats’ win. It is said that…

如果美国是一个孩子，并且是其监护人的总统职位，那么到2020年，美国就像一个孩子一样：易受伤害，尖叫着注意，舒适，滋养，触摸和连接，以归属。…

3. We’re all capable of unleashing much more violence than we allow ourselves to believe — From Christopher Columbus’ famous landing to the ongoing Antifa riots, American history is written in violence and blood. I never acknowledged this reality until the recent social unrest. Before that, I had enshrined America as my benevolent childhood hero incapable of injustices or violence. Growing up in rural Kenya, I…