The humming in my head is so persistentit gets me up in the middle of the night. Night hunger, like … More

Suddenly I woke up, straining to look up,heard that incessant beating on the doorby the frozen hand, and I saw … More

Mrs. Kimura always gave us all kinds of goodies over the years.  She would make them herself, all year round.  A month … More

I love retirement. In the morning, when folks are standing at the bus stop outside my house, I hang on … More

Since the time he’d had braces as a kid, he’d been a floss-aholic.  Any food particle between his teeth drove him … More

Sometimes it felt like everything came down to a beautiful struggle in the dark, the work and work until she … More

If she’s told them once . . . well, she has told them once, hasn’t she? Hasn’t she?  It’s hard to … More

He’s always thinking about other people, more particularly, what he can do for this family.   Barbeque perhaps, bake some muffins, … More

I run across the street, against the red light,to get out of the downpour.  I have no umbrellaagain. I never know … More

So, yeah, that’s the last one there.  None of themare perfect, of course, none exactly to my tastes, really,but I’m no … More

Near seven decades of run on, sentenced to a worn and hazy neatlythere you go, so you’ve slowed, you slowly, … More

The idea is knowing that I can gosomewhere, and I am making the firstpattern of steps, no one has ever … More

David Chan thought his partner might make and interesting tour guide. “This guy, this neighborhood, what a frickin bunch of … More

Being able to tell a joke is an art,rolling helter-skelter over a rough patchof cobbled words to a smooth finish,kicking … More