I moved to Los Angeles several years ago (it will be a full three come February) after twenty-three years of growing-up, girly yet grit...
The Ultimate Good: George Izumi's Grace Pastries
“Weddings are the most superstitious of holidays. And the cake? Well it’s like any marriage, right? I won’t say the cake is human, but the c...
Readings of Identity: Asian American Portraits of Encounter
Artist Tam Tran: Writer Kazim Ali Renowned portrait artist Steve Pyke has said that he is interested in the story each face has to tell, the...
Akira Horiuchi: A Reluctant Hero's Journey to the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony
"To be drafted by the Government, to serve your country in time of war under such conditions that existed at that time, incarceration o...
Louise Suski- the Mother of the Rafu Shimpo's English Page
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...
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