Can I Be Completely Honest With You?

Do you want me to be honest with you? Do you want the truth? What’s awful about a scenario where someone says this is that it always precedes bad news. No one has ever asked, “can I be completely honest with you,” and followed it up with saying all the words that the listener wanted […]

Can We Appreciate the Sweet without the Sour?

The sweet is never as sweet without the sour. That’s what we tell ourselves and one another. When the obstacles of life accumulate and become seemingly insurmountable, it’s comforting, I guess, to remind ourselves that it won’t always be this way. Even the religious, when faced with a dilemma of faith, often quell their doubts with […]

Religiosophy

Today I wrapped my hair up in a purple turban and put on a floral maxi dress (those are the ones that go down to your ankles). Despite the reactions from people on the street, this was not a decision made out of religious conservativeness, but rather out of laziness. I didn’t feel like styling […]