My God! I thought to myself: I missed it altogether. I missed that wild hunger of youth. My “youth,” so to speak, went from a constant, college-undergrad yearning to an over-burdened, perhaps even over-achieving adult who didn’t have time to…

During World War II, along with most Japanese Americans and Japanese living in the U.S., my Japanese American husband’s parents – John and Masako – and their parents and grandparents were put into internment camps and kept there for the…

By the time she was 25, Carlina was the killer of three. Two unborn fetuses, which admittedly weren't deemed people, according to some, but who, if allowed might well have grown into that particular life form, and one disconsolate boyfriend…

The wild hunger of youth didn’t feel like that light-headedness, that weakness in the arms, legs, face, caused by lack of calories in the blood stream. It felt like a wildness that broke out because my parents weren't watching over…

She had been a wild and hungry girl as if she knew life would be short and the banquet bountiful. Long before FOMO was a thing she knew the fear. Violet dipped her hand into the box and wove her…

Mongoose loose; RH returns We had hired Ronnie. She bought us plastic Starbucks Venti cups for copious iced coffees. Cristin was good about that, the environment. Cristin went from telling waiters she needed to know “the meat was like, cradled…

Without a doubt, when I was younger, I had a huge appetite for new things, new places, and new people. Old and familiar made me anxious, I would call it boring, or not modern, or been there done it. Now,…

I am very anal in my lists, although not as much as my friend's ex-wife, who used to draw a little empty box before each agenda item, and then an "X" in it after the item was resolved or completed.…

She had a set of wishes. She wrote them down in her journal, each entry detailed out in her precise handwriting. When she was a little girl she wished that she would be happily married when she grew up. Not…

WE had a set of wishes..... My rhyming brain went right to the large supply of china and other dishware I am getting rid of… We had a set of wishes, And a set of dishes…. Much to write about…

Hmmm, the above topic is of interest to me! What comes first, wishes or vision? What does wish really mean? As a verb, "feel or express a strong desire or hope for something that is not easily attainable: want something…

“We had a set of wishes.” Set here, not just one. It’s “we” as well. We is society? Just a family? A couple? To wish. To want to happen. I wish I were more beautiful. That’s a funny phrase, the…