“Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well,” Chapter 19 of my memoir, is now available on the Kindle Vella platform.

A Colder Spring

With the coming winter we spoke far less.You wanted something more than us.I watched the new chill frost the air,…

For one, you were a sleight-of-hand magician,and I still haven’t figured out all of the tricks youpulled, a tribute to…

Here’s to three years of “Let There Be Peace on Earth,”singing for it repeatedly and never seeing even one dayof…

This industry — I see it in my travels, the flood of tourists and their money,spreading out and sprawling shades,…

I lie and watch TV on Christmas Day with no desire,really, to glean anything of value from it, not understandinghalf…

It’s blinding, the kind of pain that comes with the rains,up here, this time of year, lots of work for…

About a year before it happened, when we were talking about his memoir,he told me he was “feeling a little…

We Koreans converge on Hawai‘i Theatre tonight,all bows and the scent of garlic-laced dinners, lots of quick head nods and Annyeong…

Trying to recall, I started counting when you said it,how many times you’d told me that before.“You should never do…

It was the conversation Mr. and Mrs. Kakesako had dreaded having. Well, the one they’d dreaded having would have been…

Maybe I’ve been here before, but I can’t say.My heartbeat tells me this could be a new place,that excitement of…

Of Fall and Winter All is vivid green here today, the sustained rainsheeting its clear wrapped folds down all around…

“Hello hello hello, everybody.” The big man taps the mic. “If you could please take your seats, we can get…

I dream of my father today, the Battle of the Bulge,begun on this date in 1944, the fiercest European Theaterengagement…

I’m sure I don’t have the largest collection of Aloha shirts in the world, but I do have the largest…

(Please Note: My postings are always rough drafts. By the time you see them, I’ve sometimes made changes/corrections, maybe even…

Termites don’t have hands, I thought, silently cursing my not-so-very amusing friend. Rod, who wasn’t even a licensed exterminator, had…

She sells coffee as a living at 22 young years,this whip-smart barista with the green hairtoday, red hair yesterday, and…