Hold On

We sit on swings, the canvass kind that conform to your butt,holding you snug, gripping you maybe a little too … More

Neighborly

There’s a corner of my lot where five properties meet.It’s the least maintained part of any of our yards.Every time … More

Death Certificates

Kahi felt like an idiot. He’d seen this so many times on TV, read about it in stories. If you … More

Paths Crossed

We were sitting in her office, and she blew a cloud of smoke into the air above us,her lips positioned … More

Coming out of Retirement

I immediately can see I’m way out of my league,but I’ve foolishly promised my cousin I’d join himat Booth Park … More

“Opera Man,” Chapter 11 of my second memoir, is now available on the Kindle Vella platform.

Too Long Awake Again

When you’re sleep deprived, you know right away you’ll be benched the next day, which hurts especially when the season’s … More

Of Two Minds

As I approach I’m first struck by the enormous rose quartz rock, a natural monument crag,that marks Ralph Waldo Emerson’s … More

A Game We Play

“Come out, come out, wherever you are.” A game I don’t actually remember playing.The only one I think might have … More

I’m happy to say that my collection of short stories, Sketches from the Hawaiian Archipelago, is now available on Amazon

The Hardest Thing

I know what hard is, I’ve done some difficult things,and admitting I have a problem certainly wasn’t easy.  Getting myself … More

Madison WI

I’ll be back next March 2023, aftera three-year hiatus has cost me time. It’s become a kindly drug that worksto … More

From Time to Time

He woke up crying, rocking in his bed,unable to stand, let alone walk,and he wondered would he ever be ableto … More

First and Last

I’ve been on at least three hundred first dates,and while I don’t believe anyone can everhave seen it all, I … More

It’s All Relative

That X restaurant must be good because a lot of X eat there?As in: That Chinese/Korean/Japanese restaurant must be goodbecause … More

What in the World? (aka WTF?)

I’m on my way home, flying from China to Honolulu,and I post this newsy tidbit on my Facebook page.Not that … More

Chapter 10, “Moved by Music,” of my second memoir is now available on the Kindle Vella platform

She Will

She asks me if I’ve taken out the trash yet,and because I haven’t, I don’t answer her. I continue watching … More

Beauty’s Truth

Close as night and day, you say,we’re friends, just friends, for now,so let’s see what happens, you say.Bark to a … More

State Your Name and Your Business Here

I’m not used to such formality, and there’s the additional layerof being ordered to do this by a man wearing … More