So my sister, a charter member of the organization, said, “Come try out for the Honolulu Children’s Opera Chorus. You might…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 10, Moved by Music
My parents never held back when it came to providing us with a variety of cultural experiences. One of these was…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 9, Doing Swimmingly
It was time, my parents decided, for me to learn how not to drown. We live in Hawai‘i, so we’re surrounded…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 8, To Read or Not To Read
I’ve always felt that there are some books I love so much that I keep coming back to them despite…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 7, The Good Old Summertime
If I’d been the right age to have experienced those long summer breaks of my childhood, where I’d have two-and-a-half…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 6, Like Riding a Bike
One October when I was living in Madison, I agreed to housesit for some friends who were headed out of…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 5, I Wish I Could Quit
You know how Mark Twain says that quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world, how he’s done it…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 4, Accidents Will Happen
Man, I really hate this. So now I’m going to have the same problem. I want to write about my third year…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 3, The Terrible Twos
The Terrible Twos? Hell. Shouldn’t this be Chapter 2 then, not Chapter 3? Curses. I’ll have to hammer that out come the final edit.…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 2, My Teeth
Two things I do know for sure about my first year on this planet. One, I was an aggressive breast feeder. This…
All That Jazz (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 23)
I struggled more with writing up this case than I did the last. Because I myself wasn’t part of the case,…
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 1, I Am Born
In the immortal words of Henry Frankenstein: “It’s alive. In the name of God now I know it seems like…
A Father’s Love (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 22)
When the call from Shanghai came, Chan’s adrenaline rush quickly died. “There was no tall woman in a mu‘umu‘u on…
A Memory of Dying
I can see us holding those little white pleated paper cups,smell the yellow pineapple cubes, icy cold, the perfect mid-morning…
Another Game (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 21)
A man the right height approached, a baseball cap pulled down over his dark glasses. He carried a black case maybe…
A Dying Wish
The second thing I remember is my 4th birthday party,five red wax candles burning on a pink cake, the extra one…
Chasing the Fat Man (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 20)
Chan asked what was up. “It’s a body. They found it out back,” said officer Williams. Chan’s pulse quickened as the…
On Wisconsin
I hear, see, grow the silence of the fields, the farmershaving retreated into their farmhouses as graves,the long acres of…
The Missing Men (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 19)
“That bastard is playing pool next door,” said Chan to the other three 49ers. “This is what we need to do.”…
The Norway Dance
Last night I dreamed I danced on my Norwegian side.I’m ashamed to say, I’ve no idea what authentic Norwegian dance…
Lanning Lee 