Amidst the stressed-mess dipped in doomed-gloom that was 2020, there were memorable cultural events that made us smile, think, dance, laugh, feel schadenfreude and also hopeful for the future. I picked 20 events that are near and dear to my pop culture, politics, science & medicine heart. In listing them all, the goal is to reveal the speckles of light that shined in the otherwise dark abyss that was 2020.
Read MoreTop 100 SONGS of the Decade (2010-2019)
The Top 100 songs of the Decade. Ranked by me.
Read MoreBirdBox, Blindfolds, and Border Walls: Till Fear Do Us Apart
Americans are living in a moment dominated by sociopolitcal fear. Provocations of fear inundate our national conversations and declarations that we should fear others are spewed from the White House. At the core of the MAGA message is fear of the future and fear of change. Birdbox shows us what happens to society when we let fear become the primary glue that holds us together.
Read More"Am I Good Enough?" A Reflection on Michelle Obama’s, "Becoming"
Becoming is a memoir about many things. It’s a coming of age story, a love story, a story of how a young woman finds her voice, her passion, her power. Becoming is a story about the fortitude of family and the promise of education. It’s a lens into America’s failures. It's an ode to the American Dream. Becoming chronicles how a young girl from the South Side of Chicago, daughter to working class parents becomes the first African American First Lady of the United States.
Read MoreNew Word, Who Dis?
The only constant in life is change. This adage can be applied to language, which morphs and evolves as the world around us changes. New realities require new words and phrases. Sometimes our lexicon keeps up; other times we need to make up words from thin air (#fetch). Read on for a proposed list of new words describing this moment in time.
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