Here's a piece I wrote back in 2010, while teaching English to international students in New York City. Based on true events, with names changed and some min...

In January 2015, I traveled to Tokyo for my work. We were planning to stay for just 7 days, but our trip was extended by 3 days due to an enormous snowstorm ...

There is the sun and moon They sing their own sweet tune Watch them when dawn is due Sharing one space - Al Jarreau, “Moonlighting” theme song I’ve heard won...

10 Ways that California differs from the East Coast When I was in my late twenties, I moved from Washington, DC to the San Francisco Bay Area, where I lived ...

“The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you,...

Unlike other cultures, Americans are encouraged to argue from a young age, in school. We all know that our national politics has become incredibly divisive. ...

I was driving around in my car, listening to Fresh Air, with Terry Gross, and I was thinking, “Wow, she’s really good at interviewing people, but you know wh...