Front

It read, “The dead know nothing the living won’t find out sooner or later.”And you sure don’t envy them, she … More

Disillusion

After all, once you’ve discovered something that’s important enough,learned all about a subject that eventually shapes your entire world,found a … More

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 … More

Normal

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

Hope

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

Pursuit

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

Lifesaver

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

Circus

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

Hiatus

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

Tradition

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

Old

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

Passed

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

Gift

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

Sweet

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

Resolution

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

“The Bachelor’s Life for Me,” Chapter 22 of my memoir, is now available on the Kindle Vella platform

Dream

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 … More

Conflict

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

Recognition

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