My idol was a Barbie doll With pointy breasts and waist so small. She really was a fancy thing With soft blond hair in a sixties swing

Let’s get things straight: an empathetic person isn’t weak. An empathetic person is strong. Weak people have been all over the Internet and television the past 36 hours. …

My son Anthony Sterling Rodgers, who I called “Lali,” died in my arms on the night of January 11, 2005. He was exactly six months old. In terms of his eyes, they were blue. I have never felt such fierce love as I did for Lali. He was a pure…

And no, just because I have to work constantly for cash doesn’t mean I ain’t got nothing to say in fiction — See that above? I saved money for quite some time to pay to professionally publish the best book I’ve written to date. You can read an earlier version of the first chapters here on Medium. I’ll just leave them up because I no longer have any interest in any type…

Eating fresh foods grown locally and avoiding toxic processed foods is the biggest political action most people can take — I’m halfway through a book by NYT food journalist Mark Bittman: Animal, Vegetable, Junk. Bittman starts the book by discussing how food influenced human evolution. He makes a strong case that the hunter-gatherer ancient lifestyle, which featured varied foods consumed at varied times of the year, created human capacities for…

Incels, redpillers and gaming dweebs say these lies, because no woman of any age has any interest in them — Have you ever seen a picture of former U.S. President William Howard Taft?

A violent ex meets a bloody, untimely end in Southern California — I still get the daily news briefs from Orange County in Southern California, where I attended school, taught, and lived for a number of years. I don’t often address the most fundamental component of wellness, which is physical safety and security, probably because I’ve taken care of that for myself…

The cost of exclusion and what to do to benefit yourself when you are excluded — I just read a powerful editorial published yesterday in the New York Times written by Matthew Desmond, who is a professor at Princeton and director of the university’s Eviction Lab. Desmond documented how the U.S. has made only negative progress in the War on Poverty declared by President Lyndon Johnson…