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

Have you ever noticed how a waterfall falls?

Spirits of glacial spittle traverse

towards the earth at...

[Originally published in Synapse on January 29, 2004.] A critically ill man who is infected with TB...

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...

In his essay “Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience,” Henry David Thoreau writes:

“Ca...

[Originally published in Synapse on January 22, 2009.] The chain of events that began on a bus in...

In the quiet uncertainty of an emergency department, a woman in gut-wrenching pain arrives, unable...

I am a young woman

On oral contraceptives

And ripe for endothelial injury:

I am afflicted with...

[Originally published in Synapse on January 12, 2006.]

Last month, the nations of the world gathered...