I’d just been in Shanghai a month earlier. There, most people know what decaffeinated coffee is. Here in Seoul, fewer seem to understand what it is, and those that do,…

Between us was a bottle of cheap vodka but not much else. We sat on the edge of Waikiki on an abandoned straw mat. We were in middle of a…

“Eventually, everything will be funny.” We were eating breakfast in the Palmer House. “It’s no gimme, it won’t just happen.” I’d lost my appetite. “It takes work. Listen to funny…

The hand moves, spirit of dance freed –unchained by dreams.

“I think we’ll postpone the exam. Instead of Friday, we’ll have it Monday.” There was a general collective groan. “That way you’ll have the weekend to study.” More groaning. Contrary…

By the time I’m done sliding through loose dirt, detritus, and gravel (like the shale mountain scree in “Dharma Bums”), I’ve rappelled from boulder to branch of shifting cliffside, my…

My jeans were distressed in a time before it was fashionable. Faded now, this grease stain on the inside right leg was from an offer of a tandem joyride on…

Seeking distraction, I decide to tell the Buckaroo all I know about distraction, which amounts mostly to the mildly annoying sounds of civilization — aircraft, automobiles, and arboreal buzzers and…

worked the cane fields of Honokaa when his head exploded, the world clouded, his body weightless where it went limp– when the doctor suggested stroke, aphasia turned his tongue to…

He was wearing the cap decorated with pins, like many of them do. I walked down the aisle and sat next to him. I extended my hand out, thanked him…