As soon as we disperse from our teacher, I’m drawn to the water. A wave passes through the shallow pool, so serene and quiet.   Another wave ripples through the water, suddenly books about Japanese-American families being forced to leave their homes, sell their stuff, shipped off like cargo to a camp, flood my mind. […]

From the clogged streets of a bustling city, a cutout corner of earth gives visitors a quiet place: a place to remember, a place to shed tears.   My feet carry me down the curved path toward a shining black wall covered in the reflections of its surroundings. On the outside, a shadowed park; on […]

The windows are down and the wind breezes by my face. The street is crowded by houses that lie on top of one another.     I see rippling lights, flickering to a rhythm that is not heard.   The sky was pitch black with small sparkles hardly seen.   I walk on the lumpy […]

  The gray sky seemed to swallow up the world as snowflakes, just visible through the thick glass of my cold window, cut through the chilled air like knives. I watched as even the trees seemed to tremble under their bite. But safe inside, under layers and fold of my bed, only the tips of […]