We Are All Muslims

Fair warning: controversial views ahead (but when has that ever stopped me before?). Oh, I tried. Lord knows I tried. I’ve made my feelings pretty clear on Twitter (here, here and here), but I wasn’t really planning on writing anything on this blog. And yet, now I am. Why? Because it’s the story that just [...]

The Eye of the Beholder

In August, the International Association of Athletics found itself at the center of a gender controversy. Rumors swirled around the Women’s 800m World Champion, Caster Semenya, with several people – including a couple of competitors who lost against Semenya – implying that she was really a he. So compelling were the rumors that the IAA [...]

10 Words

“She judged her life by the moments of greatest sadness and greatest happiness, but she lived in the moments in-between.” The above sentence was my attempt at a challenge (issued by Soul Pancake) to write a ten-word biography. Mine, if you counted, is not ten words. It’s twenty. With my apologies to Mr. Shakespeare, I [...]