“Do you believe in love Z?”, she asks as she blows rings of vape smoke away from my direction. I am standing with Shawna who I have worked with for the last five years. The topic of our smoke break discussion started off with me asking about her two boys…

“Are you the one who brought in the parents of that girl?” A man a few years older than me in a medical coat materializes at my side. The coat looks old and yellow, almost worn out. …

I guess I tried to tell them that the mind is the door to the mystery, that is bigger than us. How two people, strangers, come to meet at a specific time and place. It takes eons in the making to get to that single moment. There is this poem…

‘We have an answer, and it isn’t the one we had hoped for,” the doctor looked at us with a professional demeanor. In his cramped office, he had moved his chair around to the other side of his desk, so he could sit close to Ana and me. …

The first winter after we moved from Ohio to Portsmouth, a local high school senior lost control of his car on a winding road as he drove to school with his sister. …

I was a software engineer with an MBA in finance. I worked at a well-paying banking job near the southern coast of Ohio, a relatively low-cost state. My apartment, food, and rental car costs were covered by the bank I worked for. I worked hard and was paid well, but…

When I was young, I couldn’t wait to grow up. My family was not poor, and we always had enough to eat, but I had dreams of a better life. There were many things I longed for. Things that people on TV had, heck even a better TV than the…

San Francisco International airport is a marvel to watch at any time during the day, but it especially comes alive during the night. …

I know. Someone says something awful to you and you just stand there, powerless and hurt. Then, later that day or the next it comes to you: the just-right poison cocktail of words you should have said to deliver the perfect knock-out verbal punch. Except that if someone says something…