Before the advent of the offset printing process, the Rafu Shimpo handset every word, every comma, every dingbat and ornamental header, util...
Animal Menagerie
Susan S. has an annual tradition that she's followed for over thirty-six years, animal by animal. Having been lucky enough to have spent...
Halloween night when you're old
Notes for the CCH grant proposal discussion tomorrow? Check. Final draft of the powerpoint presentation at Loyola Marymount University on Tu...
foxtrot forgeries
First stages of sketches in pencil After a few weeks of carving Around the time that I started posting these musings on the Fresno temple an...
Fate of the Fresno Betsuin Building Project
When I was nine years old, the Sunday ritual was to drive the five miles or so from our home in Tarpey Village in Clovis until we were out w...
Today, we dwell upon our dead
I just unearthed this piece, which I wrote in August/September 2009 in Taos, NM. I had forgotten all about it until now, and though the 2011...
Hisaye Yamamoto "Humble Giant of American Literature"
This article originally ran in the Los Angeles Japanese American paper, the Rafu Shimpo, on Friday, February 11, 2011. My gratitude to JK Ya...
The Road to Camp is Paved with 120,000 Stories
It has come to my attention that several times a year, people approach me, asking for a list of recommended reading on the subject of Americ...
What Does the Inside of Your Head Look Like?
Its January 4th, and with the realization that the new year has begun and I have so very very much in my mind that I need (nay, am paid to) ...
white christmas in camp
"Born and raised in Los Angeles, I was a city boy who never saw snow in the winter, but you always heard about Christmas’ based on book...
Introduction to Linoleum workshop in Berkeley!
Introduction to Linoleum Instructor/hostess: Patricia Wakida Date: Saturday and Sunday, February 5-6, 2011 Time: 10-3 p.m. both days with a ...
Murao is Missing
Despite the fact that nisei Shig Murao was arrested at City Lights for selling HOWL to an undercover cop, taken to the SF police department ...
autumn inventory headrush shout
Went on a printmaking frenzy in September, and as a result, there's a lot more to look at on my Etsy store .
Joanna Chiyo Nakamura Droeger- Nisei inventor of the "mud pie" dessert
Karen Tei Yamashita is always full of the most interesting Nisei history, and when she told me that a Nisei woman ran a famous cafe in North...
San Francisco Loteria "Cockcycle"
Recently, the San Francisco Center for the Book asked me to be one of 15 artists to illustrate and carve a 12" x 12" linoleum bloc...
the little hook at the border of Oregon and Washington
Scenes from the month-long residency at the Espy Literary Foundation in Oysterville. I finished an entire rough draft of the book- ten chapt...
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