Christmas Now He’s Gone

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

Passing On

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…

I was standing in my driveway, saying hello to a neighbor walking her dog. K does this four or five…

“You want to go to Chicago for what?” I ask. “Tights,” says the dancer in my life. I can’t tell…

I went to 7-Eleven this morning and found myself standing in the checkout line behind a police officer. Now me,…

It’s been a long, long time since we three got together to drink beer. Each of us says that he…

I sit listening to the ocean lap as the sun rises from the east,follow its crawl up the sky from…

I’d been praying, walking down the aisle, my carry-on black Adidas bag held out in front of me so as…