Category Archives: Connections

The Adolescent Girl In Flight, Had a Social Worker to Help Her Pass Through Her Times of Play, She’d Settled Down, and Became a Mother

What these teens are in need of, is merely a little guidance, and the company of adults, from the Newspapers, translated… “Moon” was never good with her studies, had skipped school, skipped home, at the age of fifteen, she’d become, … Continue reading

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Meeting Up with My Old Friends

Thoughts, being rejuvenated, after a get-together with a group of old friends, reconnected, once more, translated… I’d, set up the treat slices for my old dog, Yellow, told him, “Okay now, mommy’s out!”, and he’d not done as he normally … Continue reading

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That Sweetened Glass of Water

The kindness of a stranger, to this woman, and it’d, helped lifted up her spirits and made her day, translated… Back when I was younger, I was, unaware, that the connection between people, had the wide variety of “flavors” like … Continue reading

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We Danced

You held me, in your arms, and I started, hearing music sounding off, and we danced, that slow dance… We danced, but that was, as far as it get, because I will, always keep you outside of these doors of … Continue reading

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The Everlasting Nostalgia

The misinterpretation from the receiver, that’s, caused the friendship to not last, but thankfully, many years later, explanations were, found, and, they’d, become friends again, translated… Young Shunza was my neighbor from the elementary school years, my classmate, we’d, studied … Continue reading

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Never Far from the Tastes of Home

Keeping the connections you’d made for a long time, it has, its, many benefits!  Translated… As Mrs. Wang heard of my return from elsewhere, she’d, immediately, called me over, to get the loofa she’d planted.  I’d watched this loofa from … Continue reading

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The Tour Guide in Mumbai

The life and times, of, an ordinary man!  Translated… This tour guide is sixty-nine years old currently. In 1946, because of war, his father escaped from his origin in Sandong to Mumbai, met an Indian girl, and two years later, … Continue reading

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After I’d Quit “Working” as a Daughter-in-Law, My Husband Started Siding with Me

How this woman took the initiative to change, and her husband, followed her footsteps, and everything got better for them both, translated… She’d once thought, that being a good wife, a good mother, and a good daughter-in-law, was a guarantee … Continue reading

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Keep Ourselves Connected with the Pointless Conversations

Bonding, between father and sons, translated… “Do you want me to bite my hand hard, to call my older brother back home for you?”, my youngest son asked. In the Ichibangai Street in Tokyo train station without wi-fi, the four … Continue reading

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The Gap Between the Father & Son

The general problems of fathers and sons, stemmed from how men are, socialized, and this father was, willing to change his ways, more or less, translated… For a Father’s Day Special, I had the hard-to-come-by opportunity, to interview pairs of … Continue reading

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