If we thought the covid-black lives-election trifecta couldn’t get more surreal, we weren’t listening to the climate science warnings

Normally, I see myself from the inside looking out. Until I happen on a mirror—I hardly recognize me from the outside looking in. If it...

Memorializing the words of Taeko Teramae, age 15 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She was 0.5 km from the hypocenter.

"I’ve seen the world tell us with wars and real estate developments and bad politics and odd court decisions that our lives don’t matte

My mom used to say that your job as a mother, from the time your child is five, is to prepare them to leave home. I always thought that...

Why do we have this great thirst to live, anyway? Buddhism says, the cause of death is birth.

After the second month of chemo, I’m aware of the tired toll; but I circle back to how fortunate I've been.

Turning my thoughts toward dying is new. If I have a choice, how do I want that to go?

I’m having one more new experience: baldness.

There’s a monthly "women’s" magazine that features fashion and accessory recommendations for women by decade: what to wear in your 30’s,...