I’m happy to say that my memoir is now available in both Kindle and print editions.
Category: Memoir
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
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
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 22, The Bachelor Life for Me
Never start a piece of writing offering your reader advice. What you will find, I have reason to believe, is that … More
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 21, It Was a Very Good Year
A one, and a two: When I was living Chapter 21, it was a very good year . . . … More
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
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
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 18, Like Heads Through the Hourglass
Drinking alcohol was so easy now. It seemed like only yesterday, on a dull Friday or Saturday night, we’d be … More
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
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
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 15, Get Your Motor Running
When I would hear my friends talk about what their children were going through to get their driver licenses, I … More
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 13, It’s a Small World
My voice changing, leading to my having to retire from the Honolulu Children’s Opera Chorus, and therefore losing touch with … More
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 12, Fear and Loathing
I understand that scholars on the subject now generally can neither agree nor disagree whether Martin Luther, ordered to recant … More
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 11, Opera Man
So my sister, a charter member of the organization, said, “Come try out for the Honolulu Children’s Opera Chorus. You might … More
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 10, Moved by Music
My parents never held back when it came to providing us with a variety of cultural experiences. One of these was … More
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 9, Doing Swimmingly
It was time, my parents decided, for me to learn how not to drown. We live in Hawai‘i, so we’re surrounded … More
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
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
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
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 5, I Wish I Could Quit
You know how Mark Twain says that quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world, how he’s done it … More