A short personal essay I published in The Junction on Medium about my older brother.

A short story I wrote and posted on Medium about George's life (the character from Of Mice and Men) after he killed Lenny.

A short personal essay I published in Crossing Genres on Medium about my favorite hobby, fly fishing.

Crayons and Creativity

A snowy day in Nagoya, Japan at the small temple near my house.

Some cool local artwork in a park near my house in Nagoya.

This is a short humorous essay I wrote and posted on Medium about how inspiring it is for me as a struggling writer when the absolute crap like Birdemic is somewhat successful.

We are still feces flinging primates. Only, we have upgraded our shit with smartphones and assault rifles and the ability to split the atom straight into extinction. Swinging from our metropolis branches

Frodo on Shrooms

I spent about seven years chasing after enlightenment. At the time I wrote this haibun I was reading a lot of books by Adyashanti. I was feeling pretty down and confused when I wrote it.

The cover of my self-published collections of haiku, poetry, haibun, and short stories about Japan. The picture was taken on a little side street in Gion, a district of Kyoto famous for geisha and maiko.

I've been performing stand up comedy in Japan once a month for a little over two years now. This is an article I wrote on Medium about the differences between writing stand up and writing fiction.

"Jesus, you fuck Benny," Bogey thought. "You had to just up and die on me here in this shit hole." He pulled the dirty sheet over Benny's stiff body leaving his blue feet exposed. Rotting

Walking to the subway station. Does the rain reflect your mood or does your mood reflect the weather?

The Golden Temple is You

Kind of spooky (The Shining(esque) sunlight that hits the wall near the elevator most days around 3 pm.

Is it the sky? Is it a weird close up pattern on his pant leg? I don't know, but I thought it was kind of cool. It reminded me of the Blue Angels for some reason when I discovered it on my iPod.

Another iPod pic off my balcony. Low-quality cameras sometimes end up with interesting pics.

My Daily Dragon

Hey Guys, I just discovered Steemit recently. I'm mainly a creative writer (short stories, haibun, and novels), but I also do stand up comedy semi-professionally and take a lot of bad pictures with my