Going Alone

Surgery today. I’m having a growing tumor removed from my abdomen, along with its friend, another bump growing nearby. This is the season...

I’m nervous about today. Today’s the darn day. The day we might decide to buy that old house in Japan. Picking a place to buy now feels...

Another sound night of sleep. Deep, dark and dreamless. A sleep like death is such a delight to awake from. Morning after the deepest...

I was up late last night to tour the outside of the farmhouse with Yumiko and her family. The experience was strange and tactile. Like...

So bold! So cavalier! Yumiko astonishes me with her courage. As we move together into our empty-nest years I turn repeatedly to find...

Yumiko went into the office yesterday and came home like a battered soldier returning from the front. The Los Angeles commute was a...

I awoke this morning with the sharpest mind I can remember. Where did this come from? Clarity of thought like my twenties. Halcyon days...

I stood in the ocean yesterday genuinely afraid. I was all alone. There was nobody nearby. The lifeguard towers were all empty. And very...

A summer without Emily. I guess we’d better get used to it, seeing as our life courses may soon diverge. But Emily will always have a...

Yumiko and I talk together now the way I imagine a frontier couple might have once talked after they’d resolved to leave the east on a...

I had a conversation yesterday with Emily which I’d been waiting for since she was born. It was while Yumiko was cooking dinner, and...

After work yesterday I went to the beach to sit on the sand and behold… Waves, as big as a winter storm were marching up from the...

Less and less. The stress of work is slowly fading away in the same way that the stress of university began to fade in the months before...

I must type quickly this morning as I’m having my heart scanned at 6:45 and I don’t want to be late. I rather enjoy such trips to the...

I injured myself again yesterday. Entering the sea after work I jumped over a wave and twisted my foot. Now, I’m limping from both sides....

Such moments! I found myself, yesterday, back in the sea of my childhood; a warm, frothing surf, pulsing with great forward energies...

We’re moving Emily out of her university dormitory this weekend. She’ll stay home with us for a week and then she’s gone, off to Japan...

Great news! Emily gets to remain both American and Japanese. The Japanese government has issued her a new passport without demanding that...

It’s a milestone day for my daughter. She’s going to the Japanese consulate today to pick up her new passport. There’s a chance they’ll...

Such a nice evening yesterday. After sundown, before dinner, I sat in the yard with my dog and strummed my dad’s guitar while making up...