One evening in Warsaw, after a long day of visiting museums and memorials, I stumbled upon a Chopin concert. After learning of the worst...

Here I sit in the center of the Krakow Ghetto. It’s impossible to convey the reality of what went on here, the horrors unimaginable. A...

I didn’t know what to expect when I first arrived in Poland. Would it be safe? Would I have enough to eat as a vegetarian? Was I going to...

The following is the first of a series of blog posts from my trip to Israel and Poland, an exploration into my family and cultural roots....

My summer trip this year was to Switzerland and my assumptions of Swiss culture were shattered immediately upon arrival. The Swiss are...

As we descend down the trail, the view of Pololu does not get any less spectacular. Cliffs jut out along the Pacific out into the...

A friend of mine recently won his first case as a trial lawyer. He let everyone know on Facebook and received plenty of “likes.” But then...

Everyone has an opinion about the election. This blog post is not about this writer’s opinion on Hillary or Trump. I’m more interested in...

​On a flight to Tokyo, I read an article in the USA Today that had a profound effect on me. This little article, about the Pope’s...

Sitting on the same bench where I wrote seven years ago, where I drank sake under the cherry trees with friends from around the globe,...

What is the greatest issue facing the United States of America? Whatever came to your mind just then, I bet it had to do with something...

A soft breeze that rustles the leaves, a grill hardly used but told to be useful, the smell of dew, two aspens towering above in a green...

In this exclusive interview with Victor Vale, the narrator of The Last Book Ever Written, Victor tells us about his childhood, his...

When the iPhone was released, my best friend, always the first to embrace technology, brought it to my house. My friends and I sat...

In this prompt, we were asked to write about our ancestors: As I lay brick after brick, I remember how I got here. The languages going in...