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Lanning Lee

Aloha and e komo mai. I'm an author of prose and poetry born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. I publish a daily rough draft here on my author site. Please read with me, comment, and please share your own writing. Mahalo for reading, and a hui ho.

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Category: Education

Land of English Only

I was born in a land of English speakers,where parents believed speaking Englishwas the key to success. My father was … More

#Education, #Grandparents, #Language, #ParentsandChildren, #PoemsFromHawaii, Writer Thursday

Learning This Right Now

No need to save anything on a board anymore, black or white, ephemeral chalk or marker. I’ve seen it in … More

#Education, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday

Wrong

I stared at the block of numbers on the board. I recognized all of them; I could count. I did … More

#Education, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

After All

I teach composition at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.I choose to spend as little time in my office as … More

#Education, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Teaching, #WriterSaturday

Race

In Hawai‘i, my Korean half dominates my look, so I blendin with the majority, no one can even tell I’m … More

#2021AprilPADChallenge, #Education, #Ethnicity, #Hawaii, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Race, #Wisconsin, #WriterFriday

Mind Your Frickin Manners

Lots of times you don’t know if it’s a joke with Dave or not.  If you survey all us folks … More

#Cars, #Courtesy, #Driving, #Education, #Injuries, #Learning, #ShortStory, #Teaching, #WriterSunday

The Sharpest Knife

Never mind the bloody footprint track his right boot made for the first few steps.  Nobody is 100% perfect.  But … More

#CharacterSketch, #Death, #Education, #FlashFictionFeb, #Murder, #ShortStory, #WriterWednesday

Strong Women

She was having a hard time going to sleep, maybe fear of the dark and all those kinds of trauma … More

#Children, #Education, #Grandparents, #Hawaii, #Politics, #Prejudice, #Race, #ShortStory, #WriterSaturday

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 24, All’s Well That Ends

1977.  It’s mostly a blur.  Sometimes when I try to recall the events of that year, it seems as if it were … More

#Birthdays, #Education, #Exams, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Wisconsin, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 23, A Tale of Mad City

My first semester at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, definitely had its best of times and worst of times split … More

#Education, #friendship, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #Music, #NaNoWriMo2020, #ParentsandChildren, #Teachers, #Wisconsin, #WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 20, I Draw the Line

I was maybe 15 minutes late.  I ran up the stairs to the 3rd floor of George Hall and popped in the … More

#Art, #Changes, #Education, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Teachers, #WriterMonday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 19, Ah yes, I remember it well

The line was incredibly long.  We stood in the dark, many of us smoking because none of us knew about secondhand … More

#Art, #Education, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #WriterSunday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 17, The Man from Maui

Ho!  I bet you thought when I said I’d write about that other important 11th-Grade teacher later, you were wondering how … More

#Art, #Education, #Hawaii, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Teachers, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 16, The Man from the North

My junior year in high-school was one of those amazing years, the kind of year that does not come around … More

#Education, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Reading, #Teachers, #WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 14, A Petty Pace

I know this may be hard to believe, but there was a time once, many moons ago, when English majors … More

#Education, #Hawaii, #Macbeth, #NaNoWriMo2020, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 8, To Read or Not To Read

I’ve always felt that there are some books I love so much that I keep coming back to them despite … More

#Childhood, #Education, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #ParentsandChildren, #Reading, #WriterMonday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 7, The Good Old Summertime

If I’d been the right age to have experienced those long summer breaks of my childhood, where I’d have two-and-a-half … More

#Childhood, #Education, #family, #FathersandSons, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #Summer, #Travel, #Vacations, #WriterSunday, #WritingPrompt, NaNoWriMo2020

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 6, Like Riding a Bike

One October when I was living in Madison, I agreed to housesit for some friends who were headed out of … More

#Animals, #Education, #FirstGrade, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Wisconsin, #WriterSaturday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 4, Accidents Will Happen

Man, I really hate this.  So now I’m going to have the same problem.  I want to write about my third year … More

#Childhood, #Friends, #WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt, Accidents, Animals, Education, Games

On the Edge

We approach the Russian Border traveling from Kirkenes, Norway by boat.  In order to come right to the borderline, we … More

#Education, #Politics, #ShortStory, #Travel, #WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt
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