Shelter in Place: escape into life.

As we continue our series featuring the women of FIERCE: Essays by and About Dauntless Women, we talk today with Chicava Honeychild, who is an actress, a burlesque dancer, a scholar, and a teacher of…

Kara Lee Corthron is a playwright, a novelist, and a TV writer. Her forthcoming Young Adult novel DAUGHTERS OF JUBILATION is about a teenager in the Jim Crow era who discovers that she has magical ab…

Edissa Nicolás-Huntsman calls herself an agitator, and activist, and an educator. In this riveting installment of our essays featuring the women of FIERCE: ESSAYS BY AND ABOUT AUDACIOUS WOMEN, Edissa…

In the first of five episodes featuring FIERCE: ESSAYS BY AND ABOUT DAUNTLESS WOMEN, award-winning author Meera Nair shares how she's found hope even as she's been living in "the epicenter of the epi…

In this open letter to her mom, Laura reflects on what she learned about being a strong woman even in a house that was wary of feminism.

Her letter kicks off a week of episodes with the women who w…

On this Independence Day, Air Force veteran Tino Dinh talks about patriotism, and why he thinks it should be an inclusive term.

Tino is the child of refugees who nearly died when they fled Saigon d…

As we approach this holiday weekend, Laura looks to Independent presidential candidate Mark Charles to help us celebrate without ignoring our country's complicated family history.

Resources from to…

We all have those times when life is a perfect storm of disasters and we just can't take it anymore. Sometimes it's our kids who have temper tantrums. Sometimes, it's us. Today I share the biggest on…

Fifteen years ago, the first thing Laura ever published was a short piece of creative non-fiction called "Touched." Today, she responds to that younger version of herself with "Untouched," a reflecti…

For the past two weeks, we've been looking at this time through the lens of the Enneagram--but the idea for this series began as a joke. Today Laura shares her own rocky road with the Enneagram, and …

Keith Watts can hush a room with the beauty and power of his singing voice--but he's spent a lifetime silencing himself. As an Enneagram four, Keith knows how complicated life--and his own feelings a…

Micheline Aharonian Marcom has been writing beautiful, courageous, award-winning novels for over twenty years. Her latest book, The New American, comes out next month. One of the great gifts she has …

Sevens are often referred to as "the fun number" on the Enneagram. But their continual search for contentment through the next great experience can also make them scattered and unreliable. Oakland pa…

In the age of Malala and Greta Thunberg, young people are leading the charge on changing our world. Sanjna Selvarajan, today's Enneagram 3, is a great example. She's lived and traveled all over the w…

The Enneagram type 1 is often referred to as “the reformer” because with their strong sense of ethics and their core desire of having integrity and balance, 1s see that things can always be better--a…

Enneagram sixes are more aware of how uncertain life is than most of us. In any given situation, they’ve probably thought through the worst case scenario--but that doesn’t mean that they’re never tak…

The Enneagram 5 is often described as "the investigator." Musician and audio editor Erica Huang was born and raised in New York, and during this time she's seen her city go from isolation to communit…

Elmer Yazzie grew up on the Navaho reservation in New Mexico, and was the son of a translator for the "white missionary." In today's Story Saturday, he shares a nuanced view of his people's history, …

The Enneagram 9 is often called "the Peacemaker." 9s are so skilled at creating harmony that we often don't even notice they're doing it. The challenge for 9s is to do what they're good at without av…

For over 40 years, Dr. Jose Luis Sanchez has been working in infectious disease epidemiology, outbreak investigation, and applied biomedical research. In today's episode, he answers questions about C…