Catch a bolt of lightning
They say that lightning only strikes once. Tonight, I stood on the sidewalk waiting to prove that old saying wrong. The trick was...
Look beyond the blades of grass
Please allow me to get extra nerdy for a second. I discovered that photography was a very powerful way to train medical students. I...
Not all but many
Women are heroes . That's what the sign says. I have no doubt that it's true. What is a hero after all but someone who sacrifices herself...
30 times more fun
It's 6:30 in the morning, and I am riding the train from one edge of the megalopolis to the other. The rain has saturated the colors of...
The Russian
Over the past few weeks, I have been jumping around the timeline of my life. So, let's go back to just after I left Lena, the lady who...
Just the way you are
I had a whole story about Tokyo life written then I accidentally erased it all. As I mentioned in a previous post, I use dictation to...
Maybe we'll meet again in Paris
I arrived in Paris with a flimsy plan. It was Seoul Korea all over again. I had very little money and one week to stay in the city before...
Open your eyes and eat the garlic shrimp
A few years ago I went to Honolulu to take a vacation and participate in an international poetry competition. There were people...
His name is Lucky
Yesterday I wrote that the happiest day of my life was when my son could come home from the hospital after spending two months in the...
Tuba Das
One of the happiest days of my life was when the doctors told me I could take my son home. He had been in the neonatal intensive care...
