Since I was a child, my mind has churned with words, language, sound. Thoughts parade through my head at night. By day, the speed and intensity of what comes up sometimes keeps me from dealing with basic tasks effectively. Doctors have tried medication to calm my thought storms, but the...

There are days like today when what I feel more than anything is anger. Allowing anger to motivate -- indeed, control -- my thoughts and actions goes against what I speak about and hope to achieve within myself. This shortfall, in itself, is enervating for me; I get mad about...

My childhood friend Yosra and I are in conflict, though I should clarify that "conflict" may conjure a different expectation for readers than what Yosra and I generally face.

Yosra and I build on more than three decades of friendship and were raised by the standards of "Minnesota nice"...

Few in the LGBT community, and indeed few who have paid much attention to the national news in recent years, have escaped the antics of Westboro Baptist Church, a peculiar group from Topeka, Kan. who traipse around the country protesting at funerals for victims of anti-gay violence like Matthew Shepard...