4 am At the elevation of 8509 feet Deep in the redwood forest of Sierra pine groves I woke up to the loudest moonlight Quietly opened the car door, I looked up The stars were not as close as once I saw The forest was in a deep sleep mode …

The first grandma was a bustling core staff in an aapi-mom-pap-operated kind of salon easily found in the South Bay. This was many years ago when my daughter was a skinny tomboy girl. She had been refusing to wear any reasonably pretty girly dress I proposed since her senior kindergarten…

It was a beautiful early summer evening. The air was gently warm and tenderly cool at the same time. The soft breeze from the Hudson Valley flowed through the wooden pavilion, kissing the bouncing hairs and flying skirts of those who were dancing and laughing. …

I was standing in the line for a cup of mocha. The cute shop was the famed Blue Bottle brand, located in the middle of a very hip shopping area. A man and a woman came and lined up behind me. They were busy fast talking and laughing like a…

Many many years ago, I was working happily in another city of another country. Then my husband had an alumni reunion gathering, and one thing led to another, suddenly the organizer found out the most of their classmates were living in the Silicon Valley so the reunion location was naturally…

It was love at first sight. I got a glimpse of the silhouette of this bridge for one second while I was crossing one bridge over the American river two weeks ago. …

They fell in love the first time they met, and with that, something shifted at the table, in the air, in the universe. He was a national figure in the neurosurgery field and the eccentric member of the intellectual inner circle of a very respectful university in the Washington DC…

I spotted this novel at Costco ten days ago on a Friday evening and finished it through the weekend. The whole story was built on a reunion dinner between two ex-lovers in a lonely restaurant at the Carmel-by-the-Sea with overarching flashbacks of their past lives six years ago. The cliffhangers…

Ever since my trip to Switzerland back in the fall of 2018, I realized I was about to be done with traveling blindly to all over the places…