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Throughout most of my life I’ve been THE Asian in the room, so to speak. My first grade school had African American kids, but no …
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The Leaf BookIn the fall of third grade, when my teacherassigns the leaf-book project—collectand name at least a dozen tree leaves—my dad drives our family …
We asked writer Paul Yamada about his background and what it was like for him growing up Hapa. He noted that unlike most early Hapa …
I was fourteen when I got my first job as a cashier at a Japanese convenience store in Lexington, Kentucky. We sold imported goods like …
I know that the last time I said goodbye to my Grandfather, he told me he loved me very much. But when I look back …
>> Part 2It was not for lifestyle reasons that we weren’t married. Even today, I’m unsure as to what the holdup really was all about, …
8:15 a.m. Alarm. Cotton mouth. The side effects of the sertaline (a Zoloft generic because I can’t afford the real thing) are kicking in. Lament …
>> Part 1Mark Twain once said: “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” But the question of what you do and …
It was the summer of 2004 that my friend Hiro taught me how much fun it can be to lead a double life. We were …
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Today, in the uniquely traditional world of Japanese enka, there is no bigger new name than Jero. Since writing a piece (“Jero and Me” ) …
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