Every Thursday morning, I chant in a room with about 30 other people while a yoga instructor plays a mini pipe organ. We chant words in a language none of us speak, and so our teacher hands out small slips of paper with chant translations so we can rest assured…

A warm breeze sashays through the basement of Sacred Heart Church, rustling stacks of paper ballots and kissing the sweaty foreheads of volunteers and voters. “Voters” is plural because, on April 4, 2023, there are precisely TWO of us in this room in the middle of the day. I like…

Do you ever feel boring? If you’re reading this, I’ll venture to guess you’re a hard worker. ELGL tends to attract ambitious, successful people. You are the type of person who is proud of your work and devoted to servant leadership. I have a hunch you’re also the type of…

Something happened at the end of 2021. The specifics don’t matter at this point, but the gist of it was a “dream” I almost got, had within reach, and then didn’t get. Everyone who knew about it consoled me. The weirdest part of all of it? I didn’t care. All…

“The only place you can find love in Memphis is at the gentlemen’s club — at least then you know what you’re paying for, and they won’t steal your car.” –my Uber driver, Earnest. June 2022. CW: Uvalde, mental health struggles, and secondhand curse words. Getting on a plane is…

Something is sitting in the pit of my stomach. Something in my heart that isn’t entirely hardened by tragedies and violence is stirring. At first, I read the news out of Buffalo with the eye of an American who is used to mass shootings. I moved on through my day…

For most of my life, the idea of being a “dog person” was foreign to me. In my house growing up, our dogs were an afterthought. They were small and lived mostly in the backyard. I assume someone fed them, but I don’t recall who. I know they were loved…

Slack is down this morning, as is Peloton. So now, I have a legitimate excuse not to get on the bike with this extra time I have on my hands. I left my bullet points for a presentation I had to do in a Slack message, and just had to…

The bright white light of the giant video screen bounced off roughly 40 similarly-balding heads, like three dozen eggs lined up waiting to hatch. It is almost the Q&A portion of the young scholar’s research and she is prepared for any question about the methodology of her modeling approach, the…