I haven't counted, obviously, but I reckon I've lost over a year and a half of my career through injury so far.
Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.
In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national.
It's unfortunate that the country of immigrants has turned its back on immigrants. The atmosphere after 911 is toxic.
As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story of how you survived and triumphed matters. For every story that belongs to you, in time, belongs to America.
Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.
America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.
Our bills shall not be killed.
Fighting Climate Change calls for innovation, cooperation and will power to make the changes that the world needs.
Colleges are a unique space in our culture. They're a temporary constellation of humans, like a workplace. And the rules about sexual assault and harassment in a workplace are narrow rules. They're stricter than what's considered criminal on a city street. By this logic, the same rules should exist at universities too.
We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.