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#NaBloPoMo Day 8: Roots
Here’s the BlogHer prompt for Day 8 of National Blog Posting Month: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 What does getting back to your roots look like to you? I’m kind of cheating here using a “place holder” for...
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#NaBloPoMo Post 9: Imagine
BlogHer prompt for Day 9 of National Blog Posting Month: Thursday, June 13, 2013 How important do you believe it is for a person to know their roots? Strangely enough, I go back and forth on my answer...
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#NaoBloPoMo Post 10: Moving
Once again, I’m a day late on posting BlogHer prompt #10 for National Blog Posting Month, which leads me to decide to follow my friend, Pamela Foster’s logic on how to proceed with NaBloPoMo: “A...
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Without My Mom
It’s 3:00 in the morning and I can’t sleep. Today, a hospice nurse told us my mom could be with us a few more days, she could be with us a month. But the sparkle has left her eyes, and … Continue...
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Sayonara
My Uncle Fizzer (Harry Sasaki) passed away last night, only six weeks after my mother, (his baby sister) died. This leaves only one Sasaki sibling left out of nine. He was a simple man, and I know he...
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Floating Home–Finalist, Little Tokyo Historical Society
Earlier this year, I entered “Floating Home” into the Little Tokyo Historical Society Short Story Contest. I was excited to learn that it was a finalist in the contest where the main requirements were...
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The Magical Red Kimono
This morning, while giving my children’s story, The Magical Red Kimono, a final read-through before submitting to a publisher, I read a blog comment from my friend, Alice White. In her comment, she...
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Goodbye, Uncle Cold-Outside
I received an email from my cousin this morning that her father passed away. At the age of 97, he was the last living Sasaki of my mother’s generation, my Uncle Cold-Outside. Though I feel a huge...
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Christmas Excerpt from The Red Kimono
My historical fiction, The Red Kimono, opens with eight-year old Sachi searching for a Christmas present on December 7, 1941. Though Sachi was loosely based on the life of my mother, this scene was...
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The Heavy Fog of Fear
A few days ago, the intensity of my drive to outwardly disagree with Trump’s hasty actions and foolhardy words went into overdrive when I heard about the Executive Order to ban immigrants. But, it’s...
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