The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.

To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy

I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.

Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here.

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.

Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people