I’m writing this on the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. This same June day has triggered many conflictive thoughts and tough decisions for me over the years starting way back in the summer before I entered high school as a tenth grader. As a gregarious Virgo kid (Beyoncé and I, naturally, share a September 4 birthday), I’d still be 14 years old when I stepped in to Southwest Miami Senior High School for the first time. And I knew before I took such a momentous step, I had a tough call to make. The issue? Tennis. Was…
Dorinda Medley is on a roll. Yes, in her life and career certainly, but, in this case, I’m referring to Medley’s 90-second articulate, rapid-fire, eye-opening monologue she’s delivering as we…
Here’s a question: What’s more fundamentally American than the pursuit of happiness? I mean, the very phrase is enshrined as an “unalienable right” in our Founding Fathers’ OG document,…
“If you wanna dance then you go dance disco. But if it’s something more for the benefit musically, then you gonna listen to the reggae because you have to listen…
I was living with ghosts. I’d seen therapists, exorcists and shamans, healers and drug dealers, but the thoughts persisted. By then, I was desperate. Raised a Catholic, long since lapsed, I…
You can’t deny it. Your driver’s license has the date right. But you look in the mirror and go, “Really? OK, so I’ve aged, but hey, I don’t look bad.…
Heidi Zorn’s happiness stems from a lifetime of helping people pursue their health and healing journeys. “Making people happy all day makes me happy,” Zorn tells me happily. Zorn and…
It may not typically trend on Twitter (I still refuse to call it “X”) like Taylor Swift, Caturday or anything election related, but to me, the hottest topic on people’s…
My overall philosophy is that our natural state of being is happy,” says Lucas Handwerker, a subconscious guide and spiritual counselor from his somewhere between Woodstock and Kingston home. “Being…












