I use poetry to describe living with ME/CFS, an illness that is chronic and invisible, thus bringing awareness to this little known diagnosis.
Through our collaborative autoethnography, we learned that intentionally spending time with grief is well worth the effort.
This essay is about my experience teaching yoga in a California prison.
This multimedia essay explores the notion of an “inner landscape,” as well as the creative practice and self-study from which this idea emerged
This autoethnography about same-sex love poses spiritual debate on the processes of grieving and interment.
In this work, I unpack how realizing my queerness has influenced how I write my poetry.
In Breaking Free: Reclaiming Authenticity in a Capitalist World, I reveal how I overcame my mental health challenges and reconnected with my true self discovering the benefits of holistic therapies and shamanic healing.
The Karen Disorder: Breaking Free from the Chains of Institutional Labels emerges from my research in the field of illness and identity.
Military culture includes a rich collection of symbols, beliefs, values, language, dress, behaviors, relationships, and work.
This work illustrates the very personal process of a Chinese-born immigrant to the U.S. and a U.S. born citizen learning about each other's cultures over the course of a 27 year marriage.
This essay describes my experiences of the arts during the Covid-19 when arts and culture organizations had to pivot to virtual offerings.
Commercial genetics has become a cultural phenomenon. In this piece, I use autobiography to document discovering my biological father.
