Sushi, Gohan, and Rice in General

To the writers of Windows of Light, food clearly plays a central part. In many of the stories, you will… Read more Sushi, Gohan, and Rice in General

Poetry through the Windows

Some of the first books I read as a little kid were my older siblings’ literature class books. I still… Read more Poetry through the Windows

Many of my readers are from the upper Midwest, where I spent almost forty years in corporate America. My best… Read more Fry What?

I didn’t exactly grow up eating fry bread, but my kids did. Our family in Montana had a fry bread/Indian… Read more Eating Frybread

One of my good friends in Minneapolis is Gloria Kumagai. Gloria and I first met in our thirties, I was… Read more Growing up in a Sea of Whiteness

The Japanese American Citizens League https://jacl.org hosted their annual convention in Las Vegas July 30-August 1. I launched the new… Read more What Happened in Vegas…

It’s finally done! Windows of Light, an anthology of writing by Nikkei (which means of Japanese lineage not living in… Read more Windows of Light

If you follow me, you know I have been writing a lot about ghosts, premonitions and episodes of déjà vu.… Read more And now, in real life…

It was a story I had heard repeated many, many times as a kid. My dad would be talking to… Read more The Last Time my Dad Went to Church

If you are like me, some days the news just gets too much to handle. I find myself doomscrolling… So… Read more Parallel Realities or Escape from Reality