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The Cover Up

My wife tells me that applying makeup can be as assuring to her as making her first cup of coffee in the morning. She feels it helps her…

Nov 1, 2023

The Cover Up

Nov 1, 2023

How to Move Out of Survival Fear

When I was in my late 30s, I launched my own company: Align Staffing. I’d already spent enough time in corporate America, where I had…

Oct 30, 2023

How to Move Out of Survival Fear

Oct 30, 2023

You Represent Sixteen Thousand People

When I was a little boy, I didn’t know my grandparents on my father’s side: they had both died when my father was twelve, and no one ever…

Sep 27, 2023

You Represent Sixteen Thousand People

Sep 27, 2023

Winners and Losers

March is about basketball babeeeeeee. Invitations are everywhere to wager on the NCAA tournament bracket, everyone you know is…

Sep 22, 2023

Winners and Losers

Sep 22, 2023

The Intimacy of Enmity

When I was in third grade I was bused to a new school, together with most of my friends in the neighborhood, where I was introduced to…

Jul 16, 2023

The Intimacy of Enmity

Jul 16, 2023

What a Game Show has Taught me about Racism

I grew up in Carsondale, a suburb of Washington DC established and marketed to African Americans returning from the Korean War. When I rode…

Aug 18, 2022

What a Game Show has Taught me about Racism

Aug 18, 2022

The Myth of Facts and the Reality of Stories

On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, a young white man, murdered nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston…

Jun 1, 2022

The Myth of Facts and the Reality of Stories

Jun 1, 2022

Innovation: The Significance of the First Question

Innovation is the art of business. It is the part of business that is the expression of creativity and imagination, with intellect and…

Jan 13, 2022

Innovation: The Significance of the First Question

Jan 13, 2022

To Vaccinate or Not

This letter is sent out of respect for you and the decision you make regarding your personal conviction around the COVID-19 vaccination.

Dec 13, 2021

To Vaccinate or Not

Dec 13, 2021

How Wide Is Your Lens?

We live in a world of images, some more profound than others. Much like the relationship between a photographer and their photograph, one…

Dec 7, 2021

How Wide Is Your Lens?

Dec 7, 2021

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Inner Oddball

Entrepreneur and forward-thinking community advocate with 20+ years of experience in education and mental health services.

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