Sugar Free Holiday Challenge: Staying Away from America’s Crack

I have been struggling with a sugar addiction for as long as I can remember. I have tried just about everything to kick the habit, including but not limited to: letting myself have it daily but in moderation (I couldn’t focus on anything–all I could think about was when I got to have my controlled [...]

Barack Obama

I have been reading the surprisingly contemplative and poetic book Dreams from My Father, A Story of Race and Inheritance,  the autobiography of Barack Obama.  I had no idea that his contact with his brilliant Kenyan father was limited to a one month visit when Obama was ten years old, and that his white mother [...]