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...

[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...