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Is Empathy Dead?

When I heard about Lane Graves, the toddler killed by an alligator at Disney, I almost threw up. My son is 23-months old, roughly the same age as Lane. I have a picture of him hugging a teddy bear he got for Christmas. His face is beaming as he holds it [...]

By Nathan Timmel|2016-06-22T09:14:42-07:00June 22nd, 2016|Blog|0 Comments

How Omar Mateen’s Parent’s Failed Him

I was twelve when I first learned about homosexuality. My family was on vacation in Provincetown, Massachusetts; we were visiting my uncles, Joel and Ray. The thing is, only Joel was a blood relation to my father. In Provincetown, a Gay Mecca during the summer months, I saw men holding [...]

By Nathan Timmel|2016-06-15T08:47:53-07:00June 15th, 2016|Blog|0 Comments