Coming out of Retirement

I immediately can see I’m way out of my league,but I’ve foolishly promised my cousin I’d join himat Booth Park … More

All Those Miles

Taking hits between rehearsing scenes of Oliver!Smoking all the time during dances and concertsDriving home smashed Saturday nights from Wai‘alae Drive-InDrunk … More

Seeing Things

“There there there!” says Eddie, pointing through the crack in the curtain. “See what I mean?” I still don’t see … More

Hunting for a Subject

I was sitting at the Tahitian Lānai piano barwith the actual Surgeon General of the United States,on vacation here in … More

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 … More

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 … More