"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn," Gore Vidal famously said. I came across the quote in his Los Angeles Times obituary. It wasn’t the first... Read More

At $7 billion, the discovery was a bargain. The money went mostly to building and staffing the world’s most complex machine, buried deep beneath the French-Swiss border at Geneva. The discovery was actually an affirmation... Read More

This is a tough world where our heroic selves emerge from our wounded selves in order to help us survive. Still, studies of what makes humans thrive shows that our intimate relationships are what really... Read More

Women of color represent 36.3 percent of the U.S. population of women—about 18 percent of the total population—and the demographic is growing. Over several decades, they have made considerable strides in education, the workplace, and... Read More

At one point in my career as an engineer in the aerospace industry, my duties included delivering training for, and ensuring compliance with, our organization’s sexual harassment policy. As you may imagine, the emotional responses... Read More

I had my first experience with godless comfort when a woman at my job lost her father. I found her in the break room crying uncontrollably, the pain seeping from every inch of her. Embracing her, I... Read More

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,... Read More