I’m happy to say that my second memoir, More About That Later, Hawai’i Born and Bred, is now available

You can find it in both paperback and ebook editions on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/author/lanninglee

Ride

My thumb, I look at it, pointed on in the direction I’m headed,that famous destination of a’ways down the road…

If you lived an eternity in each moment, he wondered,why wouldn’t that mean you’d only ever live for a single…

Memorization came easily for her, and at her first awarenessof this, she assumed everyone had been born equally able.As she…

The only way to get in there, she believed without question, was throughperforming good deeds, the living by and through…

He’d joined on the Daegu because his uncle captained that long-line vessel.It was grueling work, worse his stomach betrayed him…

As a child he’d attended the circus once, and once only.His parents, he imagined, must have seen it as a…

A break for her came, the grading of papers and the teaching done.The quiet pulse of what’s to do next,…

His body was given for me, he thought, kept hearing it overand over while he watched the walk along the…

She remembered that day, that one so long agoit seemed it was a dream, and that fond embraceso hard it…

Someday, the old man thought, when I’m very old, someday whenthe migrating Red Teals soar southward over good old Milwaukeeheading…

Now he saw their relationship in the way stakeholder analysis works,wished he’d thought more about this deal when they first…

I am ice cream fool in love with you,the whole red and white striped jacket deal,white slacks creased, and my…

They were both art majors, both painters, a heavenly Art Department matchwho bought a home on ‘Ālewa Heights, and sectioned…

And then for the tourists’s dream vacationit snows like hell in Hawai‘i, for goodness sake.Waikīkī’s transformed into White-kiki,and surf’s down…

After her arm was broken, dizzy, she fell trying to call outweakly for anyone to help, then slipped into darkness.She’d…

Dreaming, he recollected the building as his old high school.Floating on air, he was transported into a classroom there.On the…

He does not perform his work with the armchair ease you mightsuspect when it comes to paper pushing. True, he…

The work wasn’t easy, more like hard play. She wasa busy barista, true, and all of the manic franticnessof rush…