Mar 6, 2022
Buy Kindle Version Order Paperback Learned the exciting news that Choosing Life won the 2021 First Prize for memoir/creative nonfiction from North Street Books! The prize includes a financial award and assistance with book promotion. I am thrilled for the... 
Jan 9, 2022
Buy Kindle Version Order Paperback The nature of memory — and the difficulty of building memoir on its shifting sand — has fascinated me for many years. I have also struggled as a judge to evaluate the human capacity to store and recount memories with any... 
Dec 23, 2021
Buy Kindle Version Order Paperback Atomic Cover-up — the documentary showing the original color footage of the aftermath in Hiroshima and Nagasaki shot by my father’s film crew, as well b/w footage shot even earlier by Japanese filmmakers — is... 
Nov 1, 2021
Buy Kindle Version Order Paperback My father’s journey began from New York City when he went off to University of Southern California to learn cinematography. Those skills, novel at the time, led to his assignment to a film crew recording the effects of the... 
Oct 19, 2021
Buy Kindle Version Order Paperback This week the University of Southern California apologized for its treatment of Japanese-American students during WWII and granted them honorary degrees — mostly posthumously. The students in this photo include my... 
Sep 21, 2021
Buy Kindle Version Order Paperback Today is the UN’s official International Day of Peace. While the world sometimes seems to be moving more toward chaos than peace, we always have to power to move toward peace in our hearts. May peace prevail on... 
