Marveled at how two souls - two completely different species - could make each other so happy. If you were kind to animals, they repaid that kindness a thousandfold. People disappointed; animals never...
She would follow her father over the horizon and down the other side, where the world lay hidden.
Hawai'i has often been called a melting pot, but I think of it more as a 'mixed plate'---a scoop of rice with gravy, a scoop of macaroni salad, a piece of mahi-mahi, and a side of kimchi. Many differe...
A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.
Old Korean adage, Even jade has flaws. Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.
She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more
Carve the peg by looking at the hole.' Eddie looked at me blankly and I explained, 'An old Korean saying. It means, Do things to fit the circumstances.
Summer in Honolulu brings the sweet smell of mangoes, guava, and passionfruit, ripe for picking; it arbors the streets with the fiery red umbrellas of poincianta trees and decorates the sidewalks with...
Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light
We are together, all else can be endured.
An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her growing larger not smaller; she felt as though it would grow so large it would...
Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.
Kindness is scarce in the world
Love and a cough cannot be hidden.
I'm lucky, you see: I had two mothers. One gave life to me; one raised me. But they both loved me. You know, some people don't even get that once... There's only one disadvantage, really, to having tw...
Ruth marveled at how two souls— two completely different species— could make each other so happy. If you were kind to animals, they repaid that kindness a thousandfold.
Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?
Nine years earlier. Life was still
Quoting an old proverb: An empty cart rattles loudly. she said. meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest.
Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community...