A Night with Hahalua Yana

I watched her glide around, mesmerized by her fluid grace and lazy curiosity. Shy, playful and utterly charming, she ignored me. I understood, there were so many others to distract her that evening. But let me begin at the beginning. I had landed in quaint little Kona airport from Oahu just that morning. Driving through […]

Blood Moon

A sharp knock on the door startled us in our beds. The first instinct was fear, being two young women in the politically charged and often unstable region of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir in India. I asked who it was, sounding braver than I felt. To our relief, we heard the familiar voice of […]