“The Spaces Between Us” explores how the meaning of family and belonging has shifted—from the intimate bonds that once defined our lives to the vast, impersonal systems that shape them today. Through personal reflection and insights from Yuval Noah Harari and Adam Grant, Chris Monnette asks what real connection still looks like in a connected but lonely world.

Creative Interchange is a process for building stronger relationships and better solutions through curiosity, respect, and shared understanding. Learn how this approach connects with emotional intelligence, Stephen Covey’s paradigms, and Malcolm Gladwell’s insights on memory.

I never set out to be a writer. In fact, I did everything I could to avoid it. But life has a strange way of teaching us through the paths we resist most. Sometimes the real gift isn’t the devil you know, but the angel you don’t.

What a worn rock taught me about acceptance, peace, and the search for something deeper I picked up a stone last week. It sat half-submerged in the creek that runs through the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center near Ward, Colorado, where I had been camping alone as part of a weeklong silent solo retreat. Much of those five days “on the land” were spent beside that creek: listening to the water, feeling the breeze on my face, watching the aspens sway above me, each one re

A Story About Suffering, Accepting, and the Choice to Begin Again I reached out to a friend the other day to see how he was doing. We’d previously talked about a health concern he was dealing with. It didn’t sound life-threatening or life-changing at the time; just something worrisome. Something that needed to be understood and resolved. His two-sentence reply stopped me cold. He said he was learning that it was part of something far more serious than I had expected or imagin

What is consciousness? Is it fundamental or emergent? Maybe the only thing that matters is that we ask the question.

How tribalism, not truth, became our moral compass. Here’s an astonishing fact: in the last two-thousand years, approximately 60 billion people have been born into this world. More than 55 billion of them—over 90%—have since died. Roughly 95% of those deaths can be attributed to just five causes: 30–35 billion from infectious diseases like smallpox, plague, tuberculosis, malaria, pneumonia, flu, cholera, and measles. 10–15 billion from childbirth complications and infant mort

Today, there are tens of millions of voters who are celebrating a victory, and tens of millions are mourning to various degrees.