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I had assumed it was an isolated incident the first time it happened. In my building, there lives an old lady. Every now and then I would se...

Lucy is near death. Her temperature is low and she is severely dehydrated. She's been hospitalized. The vet thinks she may have kidney d...

It's snowing, the aphids are winning, and I'm done! My first semester in graduate school is finished. Now I can spend the winter bre...

My greatest enemy today is the aphid. They are sap-sucking, nasty-looking, parasitic pests. They've killed my sage and now they're k...

1. Boil ravioli and drain 2. In a pan, on medium-low heat, melt butter 3. Add brown sugar and a pinch of salt 4. When the sugar is completel...

Did I tell you that I moved in with Carlos? Since September I've been living in southern Manhattan, in a sunny studio with partial views...

Today is the three-months-and-one-day-versary of the start of journalism school for me. I think of you, my dear, loyal readers, often, and h...

Meet Bix Beiderbecke the Amazing, Fantastic Trumpet Player and Ferdinand the Bull, Ferdinand for Short. Bix is the big one and Ferdinand is ...

From the television show Cops : Woman talking to a police officer. She says she gave $20 to her neighbor to buy something and her neighbor d...

Today began another week of J-School. I'm inundated with work already, but I'm also having a lot of fun. I've already had two as...

So I'm trying to apply for a student loan. I called up a bank (one of the largest in the world) and requested information. My question w...

Aside from our celebrity journalist deans and professors, we had our first celebrity journalist speaker. Marty Smith from Frontline showed u...

After a long day of orientation, I am poopered. In the end, I didn't do much. Didn't do anything really. Just sat around and listene...

School starts tomorrow. According to my deans and professors, I can expect to have classes Monday through Friday (starting at 9 a.m. each da...

Words are like little keys, and the process of writing is the process of unlocking doors.

"The Story of the Shameless Sloth" It is not unusual for people when they board a bus to want the entire row onto themselves. Ofte...

"The Story of the Unapologetic Boob" On Tuesday morning a secretary from my doctor's office called me about a CT scan of my he...

When I was living in Peru, I heard many complaints from natives and expatriates about the bureaucracy of Peruvian institutions, the incompet...

I have a friend who is a fantastic storyteller. After my mom, he is the best. He went to the New York Public Library today, the City Hall br...

It took man five days to go from Houston to the moon in 1969. It took Swiss Army 34 days to replace the battery in my watch in 2007. On June...

If you don't believe in a past and you don't believe in a future, then you must be lost, for a present without anchors can only floa...

Why I love Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red : On my second visit after twelve years, she didn't show herself. She did succeed, however, ...

I attended a conference organized by the South Asian Journalists Association on July 12–15. Here are some of the things I heard and learned:...

When your lover betrays you, how do you forgive? First, there is no forgiveness, only attempts at forgetting, denying, or rationalizing the ...

I quote, from the end matter of the hard print version of Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red : This book was set in Fairfield Light, the first...

One of the pleasures of staying home is watching my dad eat. When I used to work and come home in the evenings, I would worry about him beca...

At 19:30 on 20 June I stepped into a taxi to Jorge Chavez International. My flight home, scheduled for 22:50, was delayed one hour and we wo...

I do miss the smell of summer in Raleigh, when the trees sweat and the humid air carries the scent of their sweet sap in the languid breeze.

After almost nine months of living and traveling in South America, I'm home. Other than the shock that my already obese cats have double...

In winter, a fog, called the garúa , envelopes Lima. The garúa holds Lima in a steady twilight throughout the day, so you can never know if...