
Sparking Hearts and Minds
“The sound of electronic heartbeats echoed from room to room as high schoolers from all over the Bay...

“The sound of electronic heartbeats echoed from room to room as high schoolers from all over the Bay...

[Originally published in Synapse on April 16, 1981.] Last Saturday, International Committee Against...

What comes to mind when thinking about the word ‘hunger’? Maybe you pictured an empty fridge, a...

This poem is an adaptation of my wedding vows
As the time together has grown
And it became clear that...


[Originally published in Synapse on April 12, 1974.] in Dr. Louis Jolyon West, Director of the...

I was at the grocery store to get cake ingredients, and I saw that the egg aisle was near...


[Originally published in Synapse on April 1, 1993.]
An April Fool’s tale. For countless years now...

It’s an extraordinary afternoon
And I made my sleepy tea at 4


For the past 17 months, we have witnessed in real-time how a genocide unfolds and what the essential...