When the time is right I hope there is still one left in the fridge. Turning the knob, lukewarm water splashes my face, dark from the Maui sun. Streams of sand flow down my ankles onto the white tub floor and funnel into a metallic drain. My hair, sticky from…

I’ve read so much and done so little. See actions you can take. I strolled by my local prison and found a 25-acre complex housing over 3000 inmates. Their lawn was too clean-cut by East Bay standards. The Golden State is an antithesis when it comes to imprisonment. California is…

Unlike my flaky Bay Area friends, books will always be there. — Cherry blossoms are blooming and so is my reading appetite. I set my goal this year to read 20 books on Goodreads, which is on a slow start. But my life didn’t start 2020 on solid footing with a recent breakup and frankly a debilitating culture at my tech job…

No one knows, and that’s the problem. Over the past decade, e-cigarettes have spread across the country like a virus, hiding in everyone’s pockets. Due to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (F.D.A.) lack of oversight of e-cigarette distributors, today we are dealing with dozens of deaths, a double-lung transplant…