Death, Dying and Why I Went To Sierra Leone
I am never more thankful for my Jewish upbringing then when I need to start processing the death of someone close to me. All religions have their own way of helping people through grief and mourning, and for many people this is one of the biggest ways that religion and spirituality manifest and impact their…
Track runs the loop of death
One evening you decide to go visit some friends. You head out of your dorm like you have hundreds of times before, only this time bundled up head to toe like you are headed on an Arctic expedition, all the while you are thinking “I wonder if security would believe I was scared of the…
Mars is purple: Bowie vs. Prince
Let me begin this column by just saying this—2016 has been an awful year in terms of the artists we love dying. Alan Rickman! Phife Dawg! Maurice White! 2016 is out for blood, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the deaths of David Bowie and Prince, arguably the two most important solo artists…