How a song about a mother’s worry became a story of war. — I’ve loved Ukrainian folk music ever since I heard Milla Jovovich’s rendition of “In a Glade.” …

How this tragedy says so much about not just the deaths, but also about us as a Hmong community. — **I’m adding this new note for readers from outside of the Hmong community for a little bit of context. There are a lot of details from within our community that were left out of the mainstream news, including the behavior of Kos Lee’s extended family on social media immediately after…

Am I the asshole? Chime off. — So I’m not sure what triggered it, but something made me think of this scenario that happened a few years back. A little back story. I grew up super poor. Didn’t really have anything of value to my name. Worked my ass off to climb the corporate ladder. Was finally…

Yes, yes, it is/was, and it is a poor indicator of overall intelligence or performance. Instead, what it really was? Eugenics. — For this one, we’re going to have to do a Cher and turn back time, all the way back to the early 1900s and to the early 20th century to Carl C. Brigham, the founder of the SAT. Now, you have to understand the climate of the early 1900s to…

Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Chris Rock, the Black Community, and all the dirty details that lead up to the Oscars outburst. — Kareem Abdul Jabar put it best when he wrote in his essay that Will Smith “did more damage than to Chris Rock’s face. With a single petulant blow, he advocated violence, diminished women, insulted the entertainment industry, and perpetuated stereotypes about the Black community.”

Adjunct Professors make crap money already, but this takes the cake. — This is not a joke, although it’s laughable. UCLA — one of the top universities in the nation — recently put this job posting for an Assistant Adjunct Professor up on Inside Higher Ed and on their website.

Bravo’s Below Deck Med Captain and the leadership criticism online from mostly other women — There are a lot of women who love to hate on other women and give passes to men. Broad statement, sure, but there’s truth there; and when it comes to women in leadership positions especially, women can be especially catty and build up no-win scenarios. It’s already difficult enough to…

As her health begins to fail… — To the green green grass we go To the green green grass we go, my girl to where mountains ride the sky and the sun kisses the sea to rainbow clouds and vermillion fields of wildflower blooms to where pain and sorrow are but a distant memory to where youth is everlasting and we roll like we…

Many of my articles have gone viral, but I’ve only made peanuts on them. I don’t think this is fair. — The major draw of Vocal is that you get paid for every reader that comes across your piece regardless of their membership status. I wish Medium would follow suit. The downside of Vocal is that if you do not have your own mailing list or following outside of Vocal, your…