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This week, I found myself unsettled. Not angry. Not outraged. Just unsettled. After news broke of James Van Der Beek’s passing, his family set up a GoFundMe campaign. Within days, Americans donated more than two million dollars. Two million. Before I go any further, let me say this clearly. This is not an attack on…
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There is a specific kind of frustration that comes from doing everything right and still feeling like the ground is shifting under your feet. You worked. You paid your bills. You stayed in your lane. Maybe you even bought a home. Maybe you were trying to. Maybe you were just trying to hold on to…
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There is a quiet moment a lot of Americans are having right now. It usually happens at a checkout screen, or while looking at a monthly payment, or when replacing something that used to feel routine. The moment is not panic. It is confusion. A low level disbelief. A sense that something shifted while nobody…
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Every time something unsettling happens in this country, a familiar phrase shows up. “This isn’t America.” People say it with real emotion. With confusion. Sometimes with grief. It sounds like disbelief, like something precious has been taken from them. And I understand why it feels that way. But the problem is not that America suddenly…