A note: I will be defending my thesis for my MFA this week. The thesis is a memoir titled "A Reason For Being" and it is about the four days that I spent in Kennewick, Washington to attend the funeral of one of my aunts who passed away from cancer. I was tasked to give … Continue reading Vicky (an excerpt from “A Reason For Being”)
He drove to the hotel garage, and avoided parking on the street. The San Francisco streets are often difficult to trust when it came to parking. For the most part, a driver will realize soon after he returns to his parked car that a biker or another car nicked some part of his vehicle. … Continue reading Encounter
I turned 15 years old in 1988. In Aschaffenburg, Germany, a school bus would pick up the high school students at 6:45 a.m. to take them at the nearest high school in Hanau, which was 45 minutes away. The students were all children of those who served in the Army; military brats, we were called. … Continue reading Mustard Seeds
The Echo Muse 