Miscellaneous Writings

• Kyudo no yume: I wrote this very short story in 1982, when I was studying martial arts. It was based on a dream my teacher, Garrick Hu, told us he had had. The images of Kyudo, the twin brother (that neither he nor I had), and the constant internal battle between form and formlessness in the study of anything zen-ish came together for this impression.
• Hiroshima: This first appeared in the August 6, 1984 issue of the Ann Arbor News. It was written two years after I visited Hiroshima while I was living in Kyoto, Japan. Remember that this was written by a 26 year-old. At least follow some of the links.
• Tilly, o Tilly: an ode to a wonderful Border Collie.
• Scotland Travel Log: compiled from notes taken during a great trip to Scotland.
• Vocabula Review article, written at the invitation of the publisher who knew very well that I disagreed vehemently with his publication's assumption of descriptive grammar.