Since women are sharing the fact that they've been sexually harassed and assaulted, here's a call-out list that's as direct as I'm willing to make it: I'll start with the most timely story. At a past arts administration job, I was working a concert that was held in a college's concert hall. After the concert had begun, a man came into the lobby...

Rise. Meditate. Go for an invigorating run in the woods, your ponytail staying perfectly put. Shower, but not for too long or you'll waste water, and while you're in there, use only products from Whole Foods, each its own overpriced bottle of pureed, oily fruit salad with a pump mechanism. Eat a healthy breakfast of fruits and veggies that you have plenty of...

For those who don't know me, I'm a musician. Right now I'm also running a non-profit, and it's an amazing organization about which I'm loud and proud, but when someone asks me what I do, the first thing that springs into my mind is that I'm a musician. I studied at conservatories, I've practiced my flute more hours than I could ever begin...

I've seen many conservative people point out that racism and genocide and all kinds of horrible things have been going on in the world forever, yet liberal folks are choosing now to take to the streets. Usually I see them say this to make the point that we're whiners and hypocrites who are just mad about losing. But there's a kernel of truth...

*There are 65 million people on this planet who have had to flee their homelands. That is 1 in every 113 people on Earth. Of those, 19.5 million are currently classified as "refugees." *The first hope is to get them back to a stabilized situation in their home countries—they want to go home. The second option is to let them stay where they...