It turns out there are a lot of ways. At a time when Google, Facebook and Amazon capture up to 70% of all ad dollars generated in the US and newspapers across the country have shed half their journalism jobs since 2008, you may think only a masochist would make…

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables No one I know seems to enjoy the experience of living quite like Mike Albanese. The biggest compliment he reserves for other people is the same compliment he most richly deserves: he’s got such a…

First, a word about her name. I’ve called Carolina Santos-Neves “Santos” since we’re in our early-20s. It started naturally; I call many of my close guy friends by their last name and “Santos” came first in her typically hyphenated Brazilian last name. Santos is phonetically satisfying to say. It revs…

The first thing you notice about Rachel is her beautiful shoulder-length hair that recalls depictions of King Arthur’s Guinevere. It frames a face that radiates kindness, which is the first thing you feel in Rachel’s presence. As tumultuous as her life may be in any given moment, she is calm…

The good guys rarely get the attention they deserve. They operate with little fanfare and pyrotechnics; they’re behind the spotlight, pantomiming instructions to those on the stage. They don’t want their name on a building, or their likeness illustrated and blown up on social media, maybe just that you’ll pay…