It’s LGBTQ+Pride Month. Let’s party. Communities across the state, including many on the Peninsula, are celebrating non-straight lifestyle alternatives with marches, galas, films, fund-raisers and a variety of other upbeat events in June.

I’ve been a curator of online community spaces for nearly a decade now, which means I spend more time than most people staring at the system of what gets seen and what doesn’t. I watch which posts gain traction and which ones disappear into nothing, and, historically, the inflammatory one or…

It was the evening of Feb. 24, one week into a digital marketing fellowship. I logged onto Zoom, viewing over 100 unfamiliar faces, with leaders exemplifying “motivation presentations” that we would all eventually do in our smaller cohorts.

My wife and I recently returned from a two-week trip to southern England, where we toured a number of gardens and their associated historic homes. We were part of a small (16-person) group on high-end tour organized through Colonial Williamsburg that took us to London and to a number of esta…

I've recently been musing about how sometimes the world meets me "exactly where I need it" — the train stops so the doors align with where I'm standing, the walk sign comes on as soon as I approach.

There is this idea that the real world and educational environments are somehow separate, and that those graduating from school need advice from those who operate in this “other” mysterious world that is somehow more challenging and mystical than the world in which they currently reside.

For all the fear and loathing generated by the ‘jungle” primary, and the prospect of two Republicans running for governor in November, the all-in, all-told June 2 election went out like a lamb.

Summer is almost upon us. Recent expert predictions strongly suggest that this year’s June-August period will not be conducive to full-time or part-time work for young people.

I have been an early voter for as long as I have been eligible to vote via mail. The ballot arrives, I sit down with it sometime that week, and it goes back out. The idea of holding on to it and treating it like a rook to be deployed at the optimal moment in a chess game makes me extremely a…

In my last column I talked about how books can act as mirrors reflecting a reader’s own identity, windows offering views into other lives and sliding glass doors allowing readers to enter new worlds.