​This encouraging message adorned the museum courtyard of Golden Gate Park in the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests...

[Originally published on February 5, 2009.] Last month we honored the birth of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King...

Sometimes being with you feels like being a pearl with a crescent moon. There is a hollow, warm and safe...

Your head is wrapped in sheets of cloth. I have never seen your eyes But I do wonder what your...

Originally published on January 19, 2012. This year’s keynote speaker for Martin Luther King Week at UCSF was Kip Fulbeck...

This submission earned an honorable mention in the Synapse Storytelling Contest creative writing category. A faint buzzing, accompanied by the...

Originally published in Synapse on January 11, 2001. “Tonight, for the sake of our unity as a people and the...

Originally published in Synapse on December 11, 2009. Everybody wants to know the future and the UC Regents and UCOP...

This submission earned Amber Por third place in the Synapse Storytelling Contest creative writing category. I’m still figuring out the...

Originally published in Synapse on Nov. 30, 2006. Tobacco tax propositions in California, Missouri and South Dakota failed in the...

Ben Mansky's "Mason" won second place in the Storytelling Contest photography category. Years ago, I was walking around North Beach...

This submission won second place in the Synapse Storytelling Contest's personal essay category. I step off the plane into the...

Originally published on October 25, 2012. On my Saturday afternoon walk across San Francisco, I ran into Abel, a young...

This submission won second place in the Synapse Storytelling Contest creative writing category. Child, I lay him supine upon the...

“What would it feel like if someone else were to come into your head?” An epilepsy patient posed this question...