My 6th Lt. David Chan Mystery is now available

I’m happy to say that my 6th Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based mystery, The Case of the Curious Car Accidents, is … More

Memory and Coincidence

I am long past wondering if teachers have affected my life.  That is the way it is.  Some to a greater extent, … More

Of the Brave

I have two American flagsBoth tucked up tight in black framesTriangular shaped to hold them foldedBut still recognizably red, white, … More

Gentle Influence of the Powerful Kind

I was a shy wannabe dancer, one who has no rhythmBut then I met you, infectious boogie-woogie flu A dancing machine … More

And Again

To be that fool for love every timeAnd a slave to it just as oftenHow funny I remember afterwardO blind … More

Twinge

It was that twinge you get, a quick spine shiver, like when you find an object that turns out to … More

Good Buy

I smiled as I put on the white cotton gloves. All of us were required to wear them because the … More

Paths

      — one more for Willie Nelson I remember like the hovering of birdsHow they settled on the water and we … More

Saying I Love You

                            for Willie Nelson My silence was my worst mistakeNot saying the same, I know, must have hurtBeing unsure of what … More

It’s Just Not True

Time falls out              visions wash awayHope holds on              making plans for meFaith keeps pieces              stored in empty roomsAs I dream … More

Some Change of Scenery

We should take the road homeWe should go backIt’s time, we both agree Nothing can express wholy this late summer … More

Hallmark Moments

I’d been in the Midwest for many years, gradually working my way up the ladder to district manager for a … More

The Weight of Words

I loaned Duke my first edition of Fitzgerald’s Collected Short Stories, but when – after what I thought was a … More

Black or White

Randol explained to me one timeThe difference between black and whiteOne slims, the other does notEspecially when someone’s taking your … More

In the Next

I appreciated the raise you encouraged me to ask forEuphoric like hopscotching over an imaginary lineSensing the end of some … More

Let There Be Peace on Earth

Five consonants and three vowelsCombine to create 28 charactersThe Korean alphabet“Hangeul”A simplified writing system for the peopleIts ease of comprehensionPromotes … More

Going, Going

We are seat mates from O’Hare to HonoluluHe lives on an island between Hawai’i and AustraliaI’ve not heard of the … More

Flying My First Kite

We run together in the strong windThe two of us launching my first kiteHe’d made for meCutting and gluing the … More

Death on the Nile

Is it true, my guide asks, that America views this as a third-world countryThat we consider Egypt’s development to be … More

One Way of Looking

This morning while I was working in the yardI looked up and saw a mynah birdPerched on a limb of … More