Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

I don't look like who I am.

Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.