On the path in Haleakalā National Park on Maui with Morrow. This website is in its way my coming out party. When you face down the sheer wall of your mortality for a sec in emergency surgeries, experimental chemo treatments, and increased routine scans you stop caring so much what the world thinks and get down to the business of being here, now, and real. This entry is something about my coming of new age, reclamation, and arrival. My first yoga class was with Teri Veireck in 1985 in the...

In 2023 the editors at Boston University's literary magazine AGNI reached out to me about their upcoming Asian Adoptee Portfolio and asked if I would submit a piece. I got to work with some amazing editors and the piece was nominated for Best of Net Anthology 2025. I'm honored to have the piece posted here: https://agnionline.bu.edu/essay/blood-born/ Tufuga ta tatau: Su'a Suluape Petelo and me with my fresh malu receiving the samaga blessing.

I found this snow hoop. It seems to have rolled out of the forest. Clearly a portal. “Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is...