Opioid Crisis: The Role of the Sackler Family and Purdue Pharma
A podcast calling for corporate accountability.
Did you know that over 100,000 people in the United States died from a drug overdose in 2021? Find out about the role of companies like Purdue Pharma in creating and exacerbating the opioid crisis in my simple and concise podcast episode. Learn more about what you can do to bolster corporate accountability.
Escaping Samsara
For the migrant minds.
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Fiction versus The Void Here I am again with my philosophy du jour. Human beings as a species require fiction in a plethora of forms to escape slipping into self-destructive nihilism. Varying forms of shared grand mythologies have been essential to the growth and sustenance of civilizations since their inception. At a microcosmic level, a…
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The Jurassic Coast in the Winter: A Photo Journal The South of England felt eerie at first. The trees are shorter but are spookier than the ones I am used to in the US, their branches skeletal and long-nailed like a witch’s wart-infested hands. The houses are smaller, made of brick, and retain an old-world…
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Beyond Conflict: Emily Dickinson and the Poetics of Desire Conflict is the engine of good writing; it creates tension and propels a story forward while retaining the interests of the reader. Or that is what is taught in creative writing classes at a college level. I accepted this maxim without skepticism until I saw an…
Escaping Samsara 
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