I’m not much of a hugger. I’m more of a hugger now than I ever was, but I never used to be. I think it was because of my aunt. My parents and relatives used to tell me that if I hugged and kissed my aunt, she’d give me a freckle. Damn redhead. None of […]
Flying To NYC To Throw A Shoe At A Friend
There are days I find it ironic I wrote a novella about a group of people who lived multiple lives. Why? Because I’m sure they’ve pissed somebody off during their time on earth, just as I’m betting I have, and karma sometimes comes back to bite one in the rump. Hence my trip to NYC […]
Being Delightfully Overwhelmed Can Numb the Senses
I grew up thinking the little city where I lived was a big place. That’s probably because, when you’re a kid, wherever you’re allowed to go, you either walk there or take your bike. It was a different time then, a time when you could ride your bike a mile or two to the park […]
Irrational Adventures in the Comfort Zone
I remember my first trip to Hong Kong and being completely overwhelmed and in culture shock. My husband’s grandmother suggested we take a day trip over the border into mainland China, a city called Shenzen. This is before Shenzen was given—or so I’ve since heard—a much-needed facelift. To say I was apprehensive about going there […]
Walkabout: Manhattan
So when we last left our self-professed stressed hero, I…er…he was trying to figure out where to go in order to step away for a bit and relieve the stress. He…er…I did finally settle on such a place; Manhattan. Of all the places I haven’t been, why choose some place I’d visited four times already? […]
A Half Asian and His Gweilo in New York Part IV: The Gay Wedding
Ralph calls me verbose, but then I just stretched a single blog post into four, plus there will be a fifth discussing our post-wedding exploits. Okay, I might be a tiny bit verbose. It doesn’t matter, though. It just doesn’t. Why? Because we’ve arrived at the day a half Asian gave up his right after […]
Let’s Get This Gay Marriage Planned: Pre-New York Part 1
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A self-professed extraordinarily intelligent half Asian stud and a self-deprecating smart ass author white guy fly to New York City, dress up in their best suits, and ask a Jewish Rabbi to marry them in a non-religious ceremony. You’ve heard it, right? Great. Okay, let me back […]
New York Never Sleeps, But I Do (Part 1)
It gets to be the little things when you get to my age. Things like going through security at the airport and waiting behind people who act like they’ve never done this before just irk the hell out of me. “Oh, I’m not allowed to take water through?” Yeah, it’s kinda on all those signs […]
