A life is created by a series of events, mostly small and a few significant. They may not seem notable at the time, but when you have a chance to look back and remember, each one does seem quite remarkable. I am at such a time, a time for looking back. I've got nowhere to go except where my mind and memories can take me. I'm writing my stories now so that I'm able to relive as much as I can while I still can. This is not a biography about living with ALS. It is a series of reflections, thoughts, and embellished memories based on the first 25 years of my life. Writing and remembering is a gift...

"The Hamster and the Gecko" is a story of natural disaster, human tragedy, fortitude, and hope. Juppun, a Golden hamster beloved by his 12-year-old companion Yu-chan, and Pippa, a Madagascar gecko born and raised in a local pet shop, are washed out to sea by the terrible tsunami that hit the Tohoku region of Japan on March 11, 2011. Yu-chan's family suffers the loss of their grandmother and house in Soma city. They reluctantly accept the fact that Juppun was also lost in the tragedy. The enormity of the destruction and the radioactive fallout from the Daiichi nuclear power plant require the...

One hundred and seventy years in the future, humans have survived global warming but are still facing the problem of overpopulation. The Free Sealand organization offers an economically and politically viable solution to this problem: floating city-nations. Environmentally however, the cities pose a great danger to the health of the oceans. An eco-terrorist group known as the Ocean Peace Resistance and militant members of the World Council of Cetaceans work together to stop the development of Sealand cities. World tension mounts and violence increases as the floating cities continue to...

Several months ago our quiet Brookside neighborhood was interrupted by the sound of a rooster proudly proclaiming dominion over his new territory. The rooster had joined us from the more rural areas across the Pali Highway. His early morning calls were clearly out of place in the concrete density of downtown Honolulu. But, this didn't stop him from settling-in quickly and befriending some humans and canines, while alarming others. From Socks' perspective (a Black Labrador service dog), the bird brought some much needed excitement to an otherwise quiet cul-de-sac. For several weeks the rooster...

"Not too late for Paradise" is set in Micronesia in the 1970s and throughout the South Pacific in the middle of the 19th century. It is a coming-of-age story that includes Buccaneers, the tragic practice of Blackbirding, an ancestral ghost, a magic notebook and buried treasure. Richard, the main character, does not want to be traveling with his archaeologist mother and her colleagues through the South Pacific. He gets terribly seasick and would much rather be home on Guam with his friends and modern conveniences. While scuba diving a Japanese submarine shipwrecked in Chuuk Lagoon, he...