My first personal essay for an online magazine

For years I’ve written for print publications. Newspapers like The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor. Magazines like Travel & Leisure, Gourmet, Saveur, Modern Maturity, and Garden Design. But not until recently have I ever written for an...

Looking Back, Looking Forward

Happy Holidays! I want to thank all of you who’ve been reading the installments of DOUBLE THUNDER and to let you know that I won’t be posting any subsequent ones, now that I’ve acquired a literary agent. May she have all the luck in the world in...

DOUBLE THUNDER—Installment #12

Dear Reader: Welcome to Installment #12 of DOUBLE THUNDER. If you recall, in Installment #11, Hardu is caught stealing medical supplies by the Polish refugee Vera Polsky and is taken by kempetai—Japanese military police—to Bridge House, Shanghai’s most notorious...

DOUBLE THUNDER — Installment #11

Dear Reader, This installment will be short and sweet. It also concludes Chapter 3: VERA. If you recall, in Installment #10, Vera Polsky takes up the pen (or calligraphy brush!) and continues Hardu’s letter to Bittersweet. She introduces herself as...