I decided to revisit this after watching USA vs Canada the other night, which started with three fights in the first nine seconds. What was a friendly but highly intense hockey rivalry now all of a sudden exists in the political context of a US president threatening to invade Canada and annex it as the 51st state and Canadian audiences now loudly booing the US national anthem.

I feel the contradiction that is the United States of America in the…

"There is a small percent of the population who were born with the ability to detect injustice. They know from an early age that they have the gift to challenge what is expected of their future." - Kurt Cobain

I have noticed recently that as each year goes by in a person's life, they often become more willing to revise or ignore the past and, when they do, they become very dug in with their version of events. Often, they…

It is possible to have a life changing, never forgotten intimacy with someone that is platonic yet charged, that is too important to be just another sexual encounter to toss into the trash bin after whatever fleeting needs are met. It was easy for Bob to fall into bed with someone insignificant at this point in his life. But not Charlotte. He loves her too much to reduce it to a brief fling with an attractive younger woman.

If you…