March 25, 2024
Post Mortem, Parts 91-110
XCI. The sense of eternity, those who find it again will be comforted and those who possess it nothing will knock them down. Life is a support, not a…
March 18, 2024
Post Mortem, Parts 61-90
LXI. Mister Father gets sad reading me, but he will comfort himself, for he has a tendency to frivolity, it allows one to live and when one gets old,…
March 11, 2024
Post Mortem, Parts 31-60
translated by Romain P.A. Delpeuch XXXI. We were hypocrites, we made light of her fears and her hopes, it was the most horrible drama, our mores…
March 5, 2024
Post Mortem, Parts 1-30
translated by Romain P.A. Delpeuch I. Madam Mother is dead, I had forgotten her for some while, her demise brings her back to my remembrance, if only…
January 19, 2023
Yonezawa Arts and Artistry
Yumemado’s numerous hand-crafted wood products include windows and doors. I. Japan is known to members of my generation by three iconic words, and…
August 25, 2022
Writing, Writing, Writing, Writing
The details of my birth aren’t important. I hate the "a new star appeared in the sky" or "the clock struck twelve and I began to cry" bullshit. Kim…
July 22, 2022
Newspapers and Me on a Personal Trip Through Time
JAPS BOMB PEARL HARBOR…December 7, 1941. That was the headline splashed across the front page of the Fresno Bee lying on the floor nearby. I was…
July 9, 2022
Lessons for a Shayna Madela
I was 7 years old when my family took a road trip to Miami Beach, Florida from our hometown, Buffalo, New York. We took Grandma Davidoff with us.…
July 8, 2022
Why We See Disasters But Can’t Escape? (Excerpt)
translated by Xela H. Although the world is huge, from the universe and nature to the human life system, to the modern political frameworks that…
June 21, 2022
All Tomorrow’s Plans
drafts Hey I know this is weird but I’m going to kill myself tomorrow and I wanted to know if you’d be down to hang out before then. Listen, don’t…