I picked the boy out because his picture looked friendly and his profile said that he only had two weeks left in the States.

During my first semester of college, I played what I thought was a “fun icebreaker” — a game I called Guess My Race!

I remember completing the initial draft of my first play, Nothing But The Truth, during the summer of 2013; I was convinced I’d created a masterpiece.

I had finally begun to build a home of my own. Unsettled and confused after college, I moved to Monterey, a coastal town in California, where I was amongst friends and working as a preschool teacher.

Several years ago, while writing a philosophy dissertation about moral saints and drinking ungodly quantities of coffee at night, I came across two real-life stories that ended up having a profound effect on me.

I am gripping my chest as my colleague attempts to reassure me. “The paramedics will be here soon,” she says.

When I was in the first grade, I convinced my father to take me to see the original Batman movie. It was 1989.

It was the ancient Greeks who coined the term “hysteria”; Hippocrates, in fact. It means the disease of the movement of the uterus.

Twist the doorknob to the apartment, walk inside, and it’s, “I’m holding a doctor’s letter saying my daughter wants a sex change operation into a man. That true?”

I think Rick Ross was playing. Some track about droptop Maybachs and spraying champagne on Puerto Rican girls with fat asses.

A lecture, I can’t quite recall the course title: The Something Something of Power. I was fulfilling a requirement at Hampshire College.

Carey Gabay was all the things that the news reported him to be under the headline, “Cuomo Aide Shot in the Head,” followed by, “Cuomo Calls for National Gun Control,” that I read first thing Monday morning

Argo is primarily one man’s vision of how six Americans managed to flee Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis.

The door frame hugs me as I step across a boundary in time.

The essence of the Buddhist path of practice is the refinement of perception.