Turn off the lights!!!!!!
Shogo was a construction worker and kind of a comical Japanese redneck. He was also a very loyal and generous friend. That's why I was...
My green card marriage
I took this picture a few days ago. It looks like this young couple just got married. The father doesn't look too happy. Maybe that's his...
How I got a Japanese visa
My horrible experience at the immigration office filled me with a kind of desperation. I had another three months to make this work, but...
Eleven is the unluckiest number
During two of the greatest disasters in my lifetime, I was away from home. The first was 9/11. As those two airplanes were making their...
The good life
For the past 140 something days I've been writing bits and pieces of my life. I don't know why but it's very easy to write about hardship...
I rose from the ice and flames of hell
On the morning of my flight back to Tokyo, I sat in the waiting area of Incheon airport and thawed out my frozen body. Little did I know...
My machine guns say it's time for you to leave
Out of the frying pan and into the fire is a common saying we all know. I had jumped from the heat of the mobster situation. I could have...
Mob work in Seoul
I think I'll continue my story from yesterday until I reach a point where I can take a break. It'll take me a few days to finally get to...
The first few months of life in Japan
The day I arrived in Tokyo, the weather was terrible. Endless rain poured down from the sky and, though it was June or July, the air was...
Too sleepy to right anything
I hear the water drip Down the hollow tree Whispers asking me To shut both my eyes Long enough to see The ghost kept inside Walk in front...
