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I thought she was crazy, but also something in me envied her.
It was the first time I heard the howl of coyotes, the first time I slept under the open...
The police hurried toward us, shouting. Our hiking guides translated: “Run!”
I stop taking the bus and insist on walking everywhere, trying to memorize every corner.
A group of strippers will be brought to sit next to you.
A few hundred years ago a samurai may have sat in this chair to do some sword shopping.
If you want to travel, go. If you want to write, pick up your pen.
I felt like I had failed my first real journalistic mission.
It’s the sound of people having a great time.
"Since you keep asking about the politics of Indian-Israelis…” He fell silent.
Nibbling cautiously on the fish, predominantly bone and scale, I glance up at my new...
“Oh God. Does your boyfriend know about this?”
Everyone’s dancing. The bachelorettes. The townies, in Lawrence their entire lives.
I’m left wondering about the limits of language.
It was a feeling that intoxicated me as I booked a one-way ticket to Colombia.
You are on a night flight, reading poetry and minding your own business.
I was surrounded by people who had made a life outside of The United States, yet still...
I’m on my way. I already bought a flag.
I’m completely baffled by others’ fascination with my hometown.
The chai-wallahs sold tea and coffee to those waiting on line for tea and coffee.
“I feel great pride that someone in my family was Gandhi’s doctor."
ME: I respect you and your opinions. I hate you and your stupid views on guns.
I fingered the six-inch gurkha knife tucked into my pants before I climbed onto his...
When you read something true it feels like the writer's world may be ending.
Some people, more than others, seem to embody entire countries.
I'll return to my austere lifestyle in California's coastal chaparral to write stories...
It was a little bit like looking at a diagram of someone's internal organs.
