That’s What’s That

2021 marks the 60th anniversary of the movie version of Flower Drum Song.32 years later, a second Hollywood movie, The … More

How Many Times Is It You Only Live?

Bored yesterday, I decided to go back to the beginningof the James Bond film franchise, to Sean Connery,still my favorite, … More

Blood

My father and I both love our steak rare.My mother has a hard time watching us eat it.My father jokes … More

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

On a Scale of Hardness

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

Love at Last Sight

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

The Tellers of the Tales

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

Smoking Can Kill (Your Love Life)

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

Spin

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

Rocket Science

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

If These Wall Could Talk

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

As We Were

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

Climax To Me (aka Here I Come) INT: Nighttime

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

Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah

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

The Advent of Microwave Popcorn

A veritable second incarnation of popcorn        immaculate microwave popcorn               holy popcorn reborn A sofa-slouching second coming        shark-frenzy feeding session               the … More

Empty Calories

That first night without her was the longest one of your life. Those were the days you’d practice drinking gunslinger … More

Episode 13 of My Hawaii-based Crime Story Now Published

I’m happy to say that Episode 13 of Follie: The Disappearances of Honolulu is now available on the Kindle Vella … More

To See What He Had Seen — Part Nineteen

It was nearly midnight. Chan, unable to sleep, sat on his lānai overlooking downtown Honolulu. Sitting here, year after year, … More

And Found

We walk hand-in-hand down a green grass path. I see the undersides of overhead leaves. They are a deep brown, … More