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When I was ten years old we moved to Dalton, a small town in Western Massachusetts. The kids were really fascinated by me, because they'd...

Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a momentous speech at the Riverside Church in New York City in which he...

Readers of this blog know that Ana Stenzel passed away September 2013 and has been living on in our hearts. But her passing is remembered...

Saturday night I went to an event called Blasian Narratives, featuring students from Stanford, including Whitney Francis, joining a group...

"I was supposed to die many times but I haven't, but being left behind has been harder than all my physical struggles combined." Isa was...

Some people never change, which sometimes can be a good thing. Reunited in Kyoto with my friend from graduate student days, Nobuyuki...

Following my workshop a student came up to me and asked, “My dog just died two weeks ago, and I am so sad. How I can get over it?” At...

Tired And lonely, So tired The heart aches. Meltwater trickles Down the rocks, The fingers are numb, The knees tremble. It is now,...

These are the times that try our souls. Each of us needs to undergo a tremendous philosophical and spiritual transformation. Each of us...

"What happens in this class is a kind of tiny miracle. We cross borders, inside ourselves and between us and others, finding the...

The careful and honest articulation (rather than avoidance) of the ambiguities, uncertainties, and painful condition of everyday...

“Before you cross the street, take my hand. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” In John Lennon's...

"I was supposed to die many times but I haven't, but being left behind has been harder than all my physical struggles combined." Isa was...

We said good-bye to Tom, as we said good-bye to our grandmother and others. We’ll do it again many times in our lives. Now the two...

I ask my young students to call me “Sensei.” Some of them know this as a commonly used expression in Japanese to address teachers,...

I met the then 98 year-old Grace Lee Boggs in spring 2013 when she visited Stanford. She was in a wheelchair and as I knelt beside her I...