My Perfect Date

Did you went eat yet? Great! Let’s go out on one date together. My perfect date? That’s easy, plate lunch and watching waves. Waves at Ala Moana are beautiful, or coming home to Kāneʻohe from Kuliʻouʻou along the mountainside near the coast. That stretch out at Sandys is absolutely gorgeous. Beautiful blue with a wash…

March 2025 Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest Winners & April 2025 prompts

Happy April to all of you, I hope your writing goes as well as it does for Lilinoe Stupplebeen, Codfishcamp, and Maliakw.  You three are the March winners of 10 Bamboo Bucks.  Now you have to figure out who gets the 3.37 Bucks. Nah, just April-fooling you.  You each get 10 whole Bucks to spend…

March 2025 Bamboo Shoots Writing Contest & February Winners

February winnahs! Congratulations to JD, Lilinoe Stupplebeen, and Kimurayoshihiro9. You’ve won $10 Bamboo Bucks for your February entries.  You can spend those bucks in the Bamboo Ridge Press online store. Send a message to [email protected] and you’ll receive a code you can use when you check out of the BRP online store. * * *…

Manhattan Mahjong

Manhattan Mahjong     Chinese neighbor ladies in silk pajamas invite moms and aunties to an aged card table on Mulberry Street. Summer air pungent with subway steam, stir-fry, and sausages. Cups of oolong tea and demi-tasse lose their balance. CLICK! CLICK! TAP! TAP! Fingers that built a nation in kitchens, laundries, and sweat shops…

Photo taken June 24th 2006

And one day I will be old, my hair will turn grey, my dark brown will turn to white. The coarse hair of my grandmother will become my own. First with one strand then another, soon to turn into waves, coming in and out with the longs box dye  I’ve seen my grandmother use. And…

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