By Liz McEwan I’ve always been comfortably above average. Not a genius. Not an overachiever. Not perfect at anything. But always competent, sufficient, and capable. For as long as I can remember, I’ve kept a mental record of how I compare to my peers—not in what I have or what I look like, but in […]
By Dr. Rhansyl Harris It was the Cincinnati poet Nikki Giovanni who said, “I really don’t think life is about the ‘I-could-have-beens.’ Life is only about the ‘I-tried-to-do.’ I don’t mind the failure, but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.” Failure of any kind is unavoidable, unpredictable, unpreventable, and, let’s […]
By Claire Kinney When my sister was in third grade, she did a project on her heritage. Our family doesn’t have the most interesting lineage—almost all of us have lived exclusively in the state of Kentucky, going back generations. Our dad, however, was from Northern Kentucky and was born in Cincinnati, so she opted to […]
By Kelly Carr Little did we know when we chose this topic that our editorial team would get a lesson on failure in the making of an issue about failure. Here’s how it went down: • First, I failed to give the right information to one author. Strike one. • Second, another author had something come up […]
By Joel Jackson & Kyle Somerfeldt The contrast is always striking. Even after a long, exhausting day, Janet loves to spend her evenings around people. Whether she is with friends or people she just met, she is energized by interacting with and serving others. Janet is an extrovert. Thomas, on the other hand, is an […]
