A megathrust earthquake struck on June 22, 1996. Mom died. So powerful an event, I knew it had happened without solid confirmation. The nurses kindly said that there had been no change in my mother’s condition, though the pauses in … Continue reading
April 29, 1991. I was at work in Berkeley. There was no World Wide Web in those days. I checked. The Mosaic browser wouldn’t come out until the following January, over a half-year later. No, I got the news on … Continue reading
A corner. Just a corner. Not a fancy corner on a tree-lined boulevard with a landscaped median strip. No, it was just an ordinary corner, but a happy corner that saw the sort of traffic a corner would see when … Continue reading