Christopher Kalama was gifted. A Mozart, some people said. At three, he picked up his father’s ‘ukulele. It looked like … More
Category: Talent
Practice
Shouldn’t everyone who attends a high school class reunion, he thought, have something interesting to talk about? Don’t we all … More
Hope
Memorization came easily for her, and at her first awarenessof this, she assumed everyone had been born equally able.As she … More
This Old Piano
When I sit down on our piano bench, the piano nearly 60 years old now, I am comfortable enough. I … More
No Movement
A ballroom exists, a heavenly one with a perfect floor, wide as the universe is wide,where the likes of Ginger Rogers … More
Going Pro
By the time she was twelve, she’d risen to the top of the amateur circuit here in Hawai‘i. Her parents, … More
Lanning Lee 