Young girls are seeing more Barbie dolls on shelves with careers ranging from scientists, future leaders, and astronauts, and imagining...

[Originally published in Synapse on September 25, 1986.] In a dramatic reversal of last year’s disappointing showing, the School of...

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] The experience of dying can vary greatly. Some see a...

[Originally published on September 21, 1995.] Among the books that have influenced my thinking are A Handmaid’s Tale and 1984...

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Non Fiction category.] America: a country that brags about its technology and...

You thought you’d never survive this. But, darling, a radiant sun awaits to see you rise. You felt as though...

[ Originally published in Synapse on September 19, 1985.] In the next few days, Gov. George Deukmejian will decide the...

[Originally published on September 5, 2002.] Welcome First Year (insert school here) Students! In the next week to months you...

From magical realism to urgent calls for justice, from fog-draped skylines to lyrical meditations on the self — this year’s...

Consider aging as three overlapping progressions: the accumulation of risk, aging as deterioration, and aging as renewal. Aging disrupts life/non-life...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 26, 1988.] Case: A 29 year-old Salvadoran woman, mother of three, is unable to...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 21, 1998.] Waking up to the annoying alarm I've used for the last four...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 7, 1981.] In calling for a national day of protest against the arms race...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 1, 1976.] This coming week is the celebration of Cinco de Mayo and La...

[Originally published in Synapse on April 29, 1997.] There is nothing like springtime and nowhere like San Francisco to experience...