HOW TO LIFE

And staying happy all day, despite what life throws at me, is my snooze dream time. When I hit the snooze button (usually several...

Just returned from another trip to Hawaii where I spent 18 days, every day, all day, on my standup paddle board working on my surfing....

Would be silent a little longer. I had brought a black suit and a white blouse. I had a pair of closed toe black shoes with low heels. ...

At four and half years old, I was still living with my Obaachan in the little apartment in Chofu, Japan. Adjacent to the kitchen area...

In June 2009, a friend of mine introduced me to standup paddleboarding. The sport was still relatively new everywhere. I had paddled...

We moved from San Jose to Truckee, California in 1996 in order to be closer to the ski hill. Our modest law practice was such that we...

In Post WWII Japan, my father was an Army Intelligence Officer when he met my mother. He and my mother actually had a 10 year loving...

I knew quite a lot about him. I wondered if he was curious about what had happened to me. I worried a lot about the reaction I would get...

But I’m grown up now. I’m now over 60 (had my birthday). Most people I know my age, and even younger, have lost their parents. That’s the...

Over and over, the three kids taunted me one Summer afternoon. I was 5 years old. I had just been adopted that Spring. I had been living...