[Originally published in Synapse on January 29, 2004.] A critically ill man who is infected with TB sits at home...

I am my mother; A distant land; I am my father; Shouldering the burden of hope

After a decade of moving between the Bay Area, the Midwest, and Mexico, in August of last year, I finally...

In his essay “ Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience,” Henry David Thoreau writes: “Can there not be a...

[Originally published in Synapse on January 22, 2009.] The chain of events that began on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama...

In the quiet uncertainty of an emergency department, a woman in gut-wrenching pain arrives, unable to catch a breath. Within...

I am a young woman On oral contraceptives And ripe for endothelial injury: I am afflicted with clumsiness

Thank you for your trust So when all is quiet I have the strength to hold still

The idea of good and evil is pervasive in most of society. From fairy tales to modern day media, we...

[Originally published in Synapse on December 15, 1965.] So much has been said about patriotism lately that your editor was...

Imagine this: You’ve just gone through an intense cycle of labor after a high-risk pregnancy involving a breech birth andlife-threatening...

According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change service, 2024 is set to be yet another hottest year ever recorded...

[Originally published in Synapse on December 8, 2005.] Following the withdrawal of Harriet Myers’ nomination for Supreme Court justice, President...

People say that because we were born on the other side, in the north, we are neither from here nor...

There was a time when I thought everything in the future was predictable. Then, there came a time when I...