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The author reflects on her 30 year-journey to completing her memoir in essays. Her memoir offers details of her life as an adopted Japanese American child. Topics discussed include how original plan about the memoir, the advice given to her by her thesis advisor Sheila about her memoir, and the challenge of understanding the nature of family and identity in completing her memoir.

In this article author talks about several ideas for writing books. Topics include considered that it belong to separate writing groups where share writing with others but this was a different process and in writing groups, submit a few dozen pages every several months as generous feedback from groups, the gaps between reading stretch out, and it is sometimes challenging to connect the narrative threads over time.

They couldn't call me a Jap when I was wearing a Girl Scout uniform. It was too American. It was like a shield. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of trip to Santa Sabina, a historical church on the Aventine Hill in Rome, Italy.

In this article, the author discusses various things that she learned while attending writing conferences in the U.S. Topics discussed include finding inspiration while attending the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, meeting with other writers from a local community using attendee lists provided at conferences, learning about speed-pitching a book and getting an opportunity to meet face-to-face with editors and publishers.

Presents the short story 'Origami.'

In this article, the author discusses overcoming of fear of querying and pitchophobia in a news agency and newspapers . Topics discussed include need of reading the publication before pitching, providing of catchy title to a story attract readers, and do not send pitch to a general mailbox rather approach to assigning editors.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of living with her mother and the lessons she brought to her family.

The author offers suggestions on writing solo performances for which performer Lisa Rollins invited her at Werx Theatre in San Francisco, California. Topics discussed include ways in which the writing for stage differs from fiction, a performance by her and her passion for writing dialogues. Other topic include the importance of experience, imagination and language in writing a good story.

This article presents information related to a girl called Hiroko. Hiroko was a girl on her way to school. She felt that she was like any other girl. A blow struck her shoulder nearly knocking her down. Her teeth crashed together, her eyes flew wide open to see her older brother Seichi, running off, kicking at her shouting that she was sleep walking. She burst through the doorway grabbed a plywood lapboard from against the wall and sank into one of the folding metal chairs in the front row. She balanced the piece of plywood on her knees; tapping it with the pads of her fingers.