I Am Leaving, I Am Leaving

When he awoke, he saw that someone had stolen his pants.He knew that someone would come during the nightto break … More

Episode 14 of My Hawaiʻi-Based Crime Story Now Available on Kindle’s Vella

I’m happy to say that Episode 14 of my Lieutenant David Chan crime story is now available on the Amazon … More

The feelings were hard, no matter what you said. Maybe not on your side, but they were on mine. What … More

My brain has always been a foggy swirl of what-ifs.Every day, really. Choices. Of great consequence or small.Do I ask her … More

They are the scalpels into the heart of the storyCatalogers of the tales of life, of death, and beyondSpeakers of … More

Steve shows me how to hold the smoke in.At 16 I’m already a veteran cigarette smoker,so that’s not the problem.Twenty … More

I will enter the vault in search of the song I believe I have spun here on old vinyl.Memory could … More

You will remember her all the days of your life,perhaps think about her accidentally,hearing a similar voice, seeing a similar … More

It is similar to the way the deaf interpret music as vibration, but even harder to perceive if you are … More

There’s an enormous crowd at the tiny lookout above Halema‘uma‘u. I and Commander Williams, USN Retired, continue along the trail … More

Can you picture the moment of your conception?I like to think that it was one involving great passion,rather than an … More

The five-night camp cost $25. I’d grown up at Pālama Settlement, currently took piano and swimming. For $5 a day, … More