Miss Bianca

“Let’s go to Auntie Ruthie’s house.” “By bus?” “No, let’s walk.” “Walk!  But it’s so far.” “No it’s not far.” “Yes … More

Never Ever Let You Go

The choice, a desperate grasp of great consequence,a hand, cramped with fisted frustration, fingers straining,reaching harder than hard burned bricks … More

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 24, All’s Well That Ends

1977.  It’s mostly a blur.  Sometimes when I try to recall the events of that year, it seems as if it were … More

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 17, The Man from Maui

Ho!  I bet you thought when I said I’d write about that other important 11th-Grade teacher later, you were wondering how … More

November Song

I look back on them all long and longfor what I might have had in my mind’s eyesee red skirts … 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

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 … More

All Bets Off (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 18)

The crowd closed back around the table.  Chan saw it had thinned, many not wanting to be near him in the … More

The Gardener

I’m watching through the running glass window, an old one from 1926.I see my father, his figure slightly distorted in … More

Footsteps (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 11)

Father and son sat on the lānai of their Punchbowl home.  The sunset was one of those spectacular Hawaiian ones so … More

Time: Lesson #5 (September Song)

RememberSummerCountryRockDiscoPop78Era / AndRecordsCassettesCDsMP3sWaiterPlease * * * * * Aloha #WriterFriday. Today’s #WritingPrompt is music Use it to inspire a piece … More

One Son Lost (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Chapter 4)

“How is he?” Chan asked Dr. Oh. “He’s stable. In and out of consciousness. He should be fine, though the … More

Affair on Eighth Avenue

I sing a fall chill wind exploring the corners here, on the downside of town,the sun unable to peer into … More

Another End Tied Up (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Part 34)

The first vessel, the Doo Sei Nam, was enormous, a good 250 feet.  It looked more suited for the Korean Navy … More

The Walk of Life

Passing, I looked inside, saw that family, remembered,their stony group staring at those white china plates,no one speaking a word, … More

Island Heritage Insurance (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Part Twenty-Seven)

Island Heritage Insurance was not a huge company.  There were seven agents housed in a two-story building on Fort Street. After … More

X. Crossing Sevens

So they don’t look like ones, you taught me, thatwill bring us back to all the music in Madison held … More

Rebound (A Lieutenant David Chan Mystery, Part Twenty)

Just as his father and his grandfather had been, Lieutenant David Chan was acknowledged as the best detective in the … More

III. Madison Bound

I charged into the heart of darkness, Madison at 2:00 a.m.,so ominous the way it looked like anywhere else, maybeeven … More

Blind Spots (A David Chan Mystery, Part Thirteen)

The first thing Chan noticed when he entered the room was Yamamoto’s huge bandage. “Vic,” he said, “if I were … More