I remember the very moment I started becoming damn-near obsessed with personal inquiry and self-examination. It was in my sophomore year of high school. I had signed up for a philosophy class. I walked in the room, and written on the board was the question “Who are you?” The man behind the desk (presumably the…

I sat down next to a woman I truly admire. She’s courageous. Strong. Assertive. Kind. Affectionate. Capable. Clear. Decisive. Fierce. She’s the kind of woman I would dearly love to be when I grow up. I was in pain. I explained to her what the cause had been. Why I was in pain. She gave…

  “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter “We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”…