When Southwest Airlines canceled system-wide flights during the 2022 winter holidays, stranded passengers sleeping in airport hallways made headlines. The...

[Originally published in Synapse on February 17, 1965.] As a result of recent action on the part of The Regents...

If I could I would take away your blinding pain And tell you how beautiful you are, how powerful

On February 1, 2025 the Inside Medicine Substack reported that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ordered...

Fresh from the gardens, the winter rose came Blissfully pure, innocence to blame Budding from the ground with its darkened...

[Originally published in Synapse on February 10, 2009.] Last month we honored the birth of civil rights leader Dr. Martin...

Snow is falling today and I hugged goodbye to my best friend at the Z. train station 10.32 departing from...

Surgery — one of the three primary treatment options for cancer, alongside radiation and chemotherapy — had always been a...

[Originally published in on February 7, 2013.] Welcome to the Year of the Snake! Snake is the yin to last...

We are in the third year of the three-day Russian “military exercise” into Ukraine, and with the incoming American political...

Have you ever noticed how a waterfall falls? Spirits of glacial spittle traverse towards the earth at different rates.

[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...