I’ve loved fairy tales all my life. I used to be one-sided in my judgments, rooting for the protagonist while celebrating the villain’s inevitable destruction because, in fairy tales, the good guys always win — or do they? I made no room for empathy, just: “Off with their heads!” As if everything is black and …
This op-ed was originally published for Page Turner Magazine in May 2026 It’s 2024, gated communities are under siege, armed guards patrol the high-walled gates keeping out the poor, foreign, sick, and starving. The wealth inequality has widened along with climate-fueled fires, water is scarce, the police are privatized and rarely come unless you are …
This op-ed originally appeared in Page Turner Magazine in February 2026. There is a shadow of darkness, a looming presence that nips at the neck of progress and laughs at hope. Our terror, our fright, lives with us—or do we live with it? This is a question that sits at the very center of the …