“I like my stomach where I can see it,” I explain to my dinner guests, but I’d like to see my toes, I will admit. I’m the kind of guy who...

She told me she always wanted to try it. She was thirteen, I was fifteen. I guess I should have considered that “always” for her was a...

Dear Mae, How long has it been, hmm? Almost seven years, maybe even eight? A lot has happened between then and now. You moved back to the...

I hate sushi. It’s my greatest fault as a Japanese culture fanatic. But my friends insisted that I go with them to the new sushi...

I kept staring; She stared in return.  When I blinked, she blinked right back -- delayed, but twice as hard; the same, but different. ...

A puppeteer, you may call it, the master of manipulation. All his fingers hold the knots, to the cracks in your foundation. Hidden by...