Of Mice and Pens
"Sir, can I please borrow a pen?" I hear this several times every day. Fifteen years ago, when I started on the road back into…
A Fine Romance
https://anchor.fm/s/56cd98e8/podcast/rss Summary In this episode, I read an experimental short story I wrote about relationships. It is a twelve line narrative and each line relates…
Monday Traffic
It's one of those typical Monday evenings somewhere in Los Angeles. The only thing people on the streets of LA are thinking of is: "How…
Who Am I?
As a teacher, the most common comment I get from my students is"I don't know who I am yet." (or something to that effect). Fair…
Why shouldn’t my mother call herself “Domestic Scientist”?
Who is to question the right of a mortician to call himself a beautician if part of his job is to make up the face…
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The Case Against The Jedi
At their core, George Lucas's six Star Wars films are coming of age stories about boys becoming men. Both Luke and Anakin Skywalker are guided and shaped by the principles of the Jedi Order, but buried within Jedi teachings we find some troubling and deeply unhealthy ideas about masculinity. Source page: Filmsforaction.org
What if?
I've always wondered what would have happened if just one thing had gone differently.
I love these Singapores
I still love these Singapores. The one I grew up with, the one that's not there anymore. The vast field full of moths ants grasshoppers…
A Song of Singapore
I'm not some high-born poet, hatchet-holding. I'm not some Woken Writer, justice-fighting. I'm not some Prodigy, groomed and gelded by Expectation. Who am I to…
A tourist in my mother country
I write for the tourists. I don't just mean the ones seduced here by fast money and high, gleaming towers; who think paying $15 for…
Ramblings & Random Rants 