Another summing up from the lectern,that all told coming, maybe the biggestword problem we’ll ever solve.Who said they’d never need…

It’s the week before Christmas. I’m in a store at Ala Moana Shopping Center, that conglomeration of places that speak…

To every woman I’ve wanted to sayI love youI love you. For every woman I’ve wanted to kissand didn’tthis is…

When elderly former lovers meet unexpectedly,do both know that whatever they felt for each otheris gone, neither feeling the same…

Where there was nothing, a blank canvas,then there was something, gatherings,celebrations of life continuinginto the twilight, with laughter, singing,and the…

It’s the New Year, the happiestof them all so far.  Each one happierthan the last. Still, Sixty-five years running aroundthe sun…

Icebergs, although you may find yourself in a situationwhere one might appear to be bearing down on you,are victims of…

David Chan declined assistance from his escort to accompany him to his front door.  Although still a bit wobbly, he knew…

I had wild dreams last night,my brain writing journal all night long,so that this morning, while reading, I’m thinkingof so…

For Halloween, the boys from Siu Lum Pai decided to meet up in Waikīkī around 7:00 p.m. at the Moana…

I am sitting at Honomū Beach Park, listening to myself singa duet I know so well in my head with a…

A wreath of smoke curls around her head (She stubs out her cigarette in a bone white ashtray,at the end…

On the Wolf River in Wisconsin, 1976, 114 degrees,a hot but calm me, floating downstream on a fat black inner-tube,loving…

I’m trying to get back into regular walking shape,my back much better after injections and physical therapy.The other day as…

The bus driver peers at the passengers, mirrored sunglasses, in the rearview mirror, move back, keep movingback, while the old…

David Chan was heavily sedated, but something stirring brought him back to consciousness.  Dazed and struggling to focus, he managed to…

I’m eating dinner in Liliha Pizza hut last night.  A guy, younger, comes in.  I call out to him.  I haven’t seen him…

She was happy to say she had very few regrets in life.  Most unhappily, those very few were all regarding her…

There is a tension in the rigid repetition of the waves tonight, in their nature rolling lockstep ashore, breaking sternly…

He grew up thinking of himself as red-headed first, a Korean second. Why he had red hair was a mystery.…