This is ADHD — I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 5. I was the girl in the back of the class making her Lisa Frank erasers talk to each other. And the sad truth is, kids with ADHD often grow up to be adults with ADHD. As someone who’s suffered from an…

The wisdom of David Foster Wallace — The world doesn’t revolve around you. That’s the essence of what David Foster Wallace wants you to never forget. Wallace addressed the importance of awareness and perceptiveness of others in a commencement speech he gave at Kenyon College in 2005 titled, “This Is Water.” He believed that simple awareness and…

To instill confidence and autonomy, parents need to stop condescending and talk to children like grownups. — Children are naturally in tune with their surroundings. They allow the invisible hand of the imagination to reach out and take a hold of the world of things. They naturally and consistently question everything about reality. They exemplify what it means to be a natural-born metaphysician. From a very young…

There are lies everywhere — Do you ever get the feeling there are things that the media conceals from us? Do you ever wonder why massive protests against the policies of the American empire and its attack dog, NATO, seem to be downplayed? …

The struggle between chaos and order — The left and right are today segregated into their own echo chambers, in which the news and reality each side sees and accepts as accurate are very different. …

The hamster wheel of life — When I was little, one of my favorite things to do was sit outside and watch the ants as they effortlessly marched about. I spent my earliest years outside all day — mesmerized by the infinite things I could find. …

The ability to think freely is what makes us human — The history of humanity is the story of slavery, brutality, and injustice. It’s also the story of how we’ve slowly and painfully progressed. Our species has been oppressed by priests and kings and ruled by force. …

It’s time to reexamine our favorite book with a little common sense — The critical examination of Christianity, and the Bible itself, is unavoidable in the world as we know it today. After several millennia of profoundly religious civilizations, we still see a large spiritual ignorance, despair, and suffering around the world; there must be something wrong with conventional religions. …