Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat.

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.

The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.

Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.