#AmWriting

In the last episode, I introduced you to DEA Agent Sa-li Ma and his five-year-old daughter Maggie Rose. One of my loyal readers noted that Chinese names are generally last name first but not so with Ma. His family "Americanized" most of their names three decades...

It’s time for a status report. In my last post, I announced I had been diagnosed with Stage One breast cancer. That’s still true. I was diagnosed. And I wrote about having the tumor removed surgically. ‘Tis true. The beastie is gone. After extensive meetings with my...

I hadn’t planned my summer vacation to include what happened to me, but it did. Let’s start at the beginning. My local hospital sent me a reminder to schedule a annual routine exam. I arrived, stripped from the waist up as I had done for at least fifteen years. My...