Despite her father’s worries about practicality, Sarah had majored in art with a dual focus in photography and painting.  She’d actually … More

Someone far away, speaks somethingto me from the eagle-taloned lectern clutching,a bird of prey perched upon the ball of earth,ministering … More

So no one heard any screaming.  None.  Not upstairs, not downstairs, not out on the street.  All this silence while someone was being … More

I know the precipice inching up on me,feel blindly with my foot behind me,try to step backward, back into our … More

It’s warm here, the end of October, the day we marry. Here on The Bund, in sweating, modern Shanghai,we two … More

Time splits it perfectly, the ship’s hull knifesand gone to ghosts on the water, a lost mirror shatteredinto a million … More

Mr. Santos lay in the heat not cursing his son’s name.  He wasn’t that kind of man.  But he did wonder why … More

Two lovers who have found someone to love will understand how the beauty of Kāne’ohe Bay, sparkling under the windward … More

I’ve always been so much of us in another day, I seenow how I only saw directly into darkness,stared myself … More

Chan finished interviewing the residents. Of course they were all just honest, hard-working women. Every one of them was employed … More

Yesterday the sun came out to play only briefly now and then on Shennong mountain. In one of those moments where I … More

This movie shows, unwinding this life, the action, no matter how time may seem at times, is always inevitably linear, … More

As far as Sniffen was concerned, Po was a fat old Chinaman who thought too much of himself. If the … More

Ah, that holy moment of retrospective understanding, the aha second when everything that didn’t come together but could have didn’t … More

I humat low volume to block outwhat’s being said, try to look pastthe pulpit and throughthe wall of the church,think … More

Dan Brown says he does all of his writingin airports and railway stations, in between flights hereand trains there – … More

My Red Sox finished weaklyMy Angels crashed bleaklyMy Brewers died quicklyMy Dodgers looked sickly I could definitely cheer for Kolton … More

Like you, I think, I’m always trying to rediscover,recover my father, my mother, to know, to understandtheir stories by telling … More

My mother may not have beenthe most talented of pianists,but she might have won a trophyfor painful persistence since childhood. … More

Benny liked to be called Benny.  He didn’t care for his real name, Bayani. Rollie could take or leave Roland.  It made … More