I get out of bed, slowly, numbly The morning dopamine has not kicked in In fact, I have no sense of it I sigh … that’s never a good sign...

Seize the day, when you put someone else first. Altruism. The top of Maslow’s pyramid. Altruism. Seize the day, when you give of yourself...

As he crossed the Isthmus, the idea did form. -A way to avoid the coastal storm. How would this land Balboa transform? A passageway could...

Presented: a floating cube. The work of great craftsmanship. Exquisite to behold. One can easily appraise by a visual over. But they...

Sacrament of the sick A cross was placed on my squad leader's head I prayed with all my might I wouldn’t get a cross or belly of lead...

Cape Town, South Africa, is in a drought. Every drop of water they must measure out. People only get fifty liters a day. Of water, they...

Dots and dashes Mores Code Early radio communication Mores Code The opening of the information age Mores Code Proficient way to...

This city is mine. I do not dream about it, nor do I see it in the daylight. It is hypnogogic, rising up brick by adobe brick as I close...

Machu Picchu, you call me. Early Inca’s royal estate. Where did they go? What was their fate? Did they all die, or did some flee? They...

Remember in childhood. How free, we didn’t realize. We longed to reach adulthood. Unaware of its surprise. Adulthood is drudgery. To-do...

Trevor convinced me to walk down the hill, toward the canyon flanking his dad’s backyard in Tierra Santa. I wouldn’t have ventured down...

Today, we call it the Black Death. Medieval times called it Blue Sickness. An epidemic spread by living breath, But mostly flea vectors...

Even if I went through the same thing, I would come back. Bringing out of the darkness the light that becomes day Well tempered by the...

I am forced to kill their babies. "The grim reaper of birth," the media calls me. I didn't ask for this job. Hell, no one asks for their...

Once a field of green, lush and wonderful; Now, a stretch of asphalt. Once trees climbed to the lowest cloud; Now, a chain-link fence....

I joined the Army to prove I was a badass woman -not just any woman, a warrior-black Valkyrior. "Valkyrie, you know why we named you...

Jesus wept. John 11:35 Don’t waste water they say but there is always the same amount of water on earth but something cannot come from...

Breaking her promise Looking for something elsewhere Never settled Chasing lies She finally finds peace on her knees....