All Our Summers Find One Winter’s End

The only photo I had was of you at that one picnic,blue, long-sleeved shirt, a turtle neck, and white slacks.Our … More

What’s Done

Pressing themselves, all of them, into permanent wallflowers, these young people gone flat at functions, standing still, eyes lasers on … More

When is a beer not a celebratory beer? This is not a riddle. Every beer I drink with relatives and … More

A revered professor. From our days of college pressures and living free, before the world you know tries its level … More

An old man, a strange one, people said, ran the tiny bookstore that had withstood the covid test. You may … More

I’m not into tattoos. The first thing I ask a woman who’s interested in taking a relationship further is if … More

It began one Saturday morning when his mother had been drinking coffee and reading the paper at the breakfast table. … More

As a child he’d attended the circus once, and once only.His parents, he imagined, must have seen it as a … More

They were both art majors, both painters, a heavenly Art Department matchwho bought a home on ‘Ālewa Heights, and sectioned … More

His parents had raised him to be politically progressive.But over time, as their candidates lost again and again,his parents enthusiasm … More

They give me an odd look. Well okay then, I seemy knee in her back –the small of it, looks … More

This industry — I see it in my travels, the flood of tourists and their money,spreading out and sprawling shades, … More

She sells coffee as a living at 22 young years,this whip-smart barista with the green hairtoday, red hair yesterday, and … More

“Mister Lee, are you awake?” The thick, long blue curtains are pulled back, and light slips into the tiny room. … More

This is the end of it, I think, standing stiff after 7 hours in the air,the snaking line of terminal … More

It’s billed as A Match Made in Heaven, a revered traditional Korean love storycarried down from a bygone age to … More

On Jeju Island we travel rough backroads on our small bus,bumping along narrowly through perfectly planted fields,row on row of … More

In the evening as the sun slips down in the horizon line,I see myself glimmering in the airport window glass,a … More

You surprise me, knocking on my door after 15 years,but I recognize that face behind the mask instantly.The last time … More

Are you a friends and family, or a family and friends type of person? Whenever I say it or write … More