D.T.
Mar 4, 2022
White Horse and Painted Pipe
Tradition is a bit like eating a chicken wing: not much meat on it, but such a waste to throw it away. So you keep it. You keep it for...
D.T.
Sep 2, 2021
The Decision
The sky was grey most days, that approaching winter in November 1991 in Toronto. Not a charcoal grey, but a kind of joyless light grey. ...
D.T.
Jul 29, 2020
Remembering Lao Wu
Spring flowers and autumn moons; When is it to end? How many past events Can one recall? …Let me enquire: How much sorrow? Like a river...
D.T.
Nov 13, 2018
The Hall of Great Elegance
Lamb shank, a dish when well prepared, makes a wonderful meal. My friends Ron and Lesley invited me to dinner when my dear wife was in...
D.T.
Jun 2, 2018
Mittelstand
Aitutaki. Aitutaki Lagoon. Aitutaki Lagoon Resort. Aitutaki Lagoon Resort Grotto. Aitutaki Lagoon Resort Island, part of the Cook...
A.P.
Jun 9, 2017
Noriko’s story
…echoes of the Sino-Japanese war... I stood outside my apartment door staring at it and not very far from crying--jet-lag messes up with...
D.T.
Dec 31, 2016
Staying afloat
On the Peak, the Number 1 ball was raised on the pole. The typhoon was coming. The sky was getting dark. The time was 1950. The...