[Originally published on February 20, 2009.] Last month we honored the birth of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King...

[Originally published in Synapse on February 14, 2011.] Ah, another Valentine’s Day... and I, for one, will be spending it...

On the phone she’ll tell me stories about shorebirds which breed in warmer marshland winters and still cross the continent...

When I found out the next patient I’ll be following is a retired army cardiothoracic surgeon in his late eighties...

[Originally published in Synapse on February 1, 1979.] President Carter in his State of the Union address Wednesday, called for...

Been drifting along A sea of green. Been free to be, to breathe, to dream

(Originally published on January 31, 1989.) ThuyMinhDo, Third-year pharmacy student: If I was home, the house would be festive, with...

This morning, strolling soddenly down Harmon street, the rain became a sudden shield; with sudden clarity I felt calamity dismissed...

[Originally published in Synapse on January 14, 1993.] Martin Luther King, Jr.’s most enduring words were delivered August 28, 1963...

Research shows laughter may be more of a social tool than a sign of enjoyment in conversations with strangers.

(Originally published in Synapse on January 6, 2011.) It is that time of the year when gym membership sign-ups are...

It was sunrise Nail clipping of a moon, an incisor tooth Peeking and covered again, the colors of the sky...

Often, I used to drop by to ask a patient of mine about his mood, and one day he just...

[Originally published on December 3, 1998.] Students at the eight other University of California campuses went on strike Tuesday, Dec...

[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] The typical existential thoughts of a graduate student drifted through...