Category Archives: Intro to My Writings

I ‘m going to tell you about this photograph, but first I’m going take a slight sidebar. Learning the use of shutter speeds and aperture settings, the weight of highlights and shadows, or placing your primary subject composed aesthetically, are … Continue reading →

It is a little-known fact that toilets are magnetized and attract and swallow up iPhones. This is confirmed by scientific evidence compiled by this researcher in his own home. This has been colleague reviewed and scientifically confirmed by research conducted … Continue reading →

Humor: sudden, inexplicable whim or notion. The quality of being laughable or comical; drollery; farcicality; jocularity; ludicrousness; ridiculousness; wittiness; zaniness.

When I initially thought of this question, two jobs came to mind, my first job ever which was working for the family from age eight on, and my last employment from which I retired. I was eight when I first … Continue reading →

I was born on January 25th, 1938 to Yoriko Ann Nagai and Ben Noriaki Nagai. My birth certificate was formally filed on the 10th of February, 1938 listing my name as Gordon Noriaki Nagai. A subsequent addendum to my birth … Continue reading →

In high school I participated in two team sports, football and track and field, and did well in both. Because of my size, in football I was on the junior varsity team, what we called the B team. At age … Continue reading →

I don’t have memories of Pearl Harbor, but then I was only three at the time. I have only a few memory traces from camp Amache, the American concentration camp my family was forced into for three years during WWII. … Continue reading →

We’ve been in our new apartment and home for some 8 weeks now, and things are pretty much settled. We have only a couple of boxes to empty, but they’re filled with books and we’re having space problems because I … Continue reading →

Downsizing is a state of mind. It’s hard to believe but we’ve been in our apartment for 6 weeks – April 2nd was our move-in date, so 6 weeks is for real;. It doesn’t feel that long, sort of.

I lied, there is another downsizing chapter in me: It is at its heart about transitions. It’s a rite-of-passage from one state to another, from one mind-space to tomorrow. For us, the first stages were with passing on those things … Continue reading →