Under the Golden Arches

Always a favorite of minethat last meal with youwriting about it repeatedlyhow we dined at McDonald’sFilet-o-Fish and friesthe grandest of … More

Old Folks Are Cautious

You tell me to go out, but I don’t want to die.You say it’s really so much better, it’s getting … More

I will enter the vault in search of the song I believe I have spun here on old vinyl.Memory could … More

It is similar to the way the deaf interpret music as vibration, but even harder to perceive if you are … More

I’m happy to say that Episode 13 of Follie: The Disappearances of Honolulu is now available on the Kindle Vella … More

It was nearly midnight. Chan, unable to sleep, sat on his lānai overlooking downtown Honolulu. Sitting here, year after year, … More

Digging up a spade of rocky soil in that old ground took exertion enough for three or four of a … More

I waited, breath bated, in anticipation and trepidation,the tenterhooks rubbing my flesh a delightfully reddish hue.Headen for a wed’n, I … More

Jason Yu awoke with a start. It took a moment for him to realize where he was. Sitting up, he could see … More

No need to dress in riot gear, my dear, my apologies. After all these years I was curious whether you … More

The hole in the snowbank was deep, and as I peered into it, I imagined I was looking at some … More

Jason Yu was at a loss about what to do. He sat listless in his warehouse. Kevin Won walked in, interrupting Yu’s … More

So I see that Daniel Craig will be Macbeth on Broadway. But before they settled on James Bond, I hear … More

It was going to be rough again tonight. Chan finally gave up, exhausted as he was, got out of bed and … More

Being alive always struck me as a kind of double-edged sword.To be afraid of the unknown, I suppose, is natural.I … More

Retirement has brought many changes. Four years ago I began decorating my windows for Halloween. Never having done this, and … More

Spring came mid-March this year, the first day fallingon the same day I’d have headed for my annual Madison writing … More

The old woman sits in a beach chair, ten feet away from the fruit standShe wears an orange and yellow floral … More

For a long time now, when I’d be eating my cornflakes at the breakfast table, I’d keep thinking you were … More