Category Archives: family

August 1, 1995 – The South Shore / Watchic Pond – Journal Entry

August 8, 2023 – 7:35 pm

I had planned on leaving for Asia the previous weekend, but after a long phone call with Todd Shigekane, I decided to bus north and visit Michael’s grave as well as my grieving mother. She had lost her baby son. His birth on December 7, 1960 was clear in my head. Thirty-five years ago. I […]

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HOT AS BLAZES by Peter Nolan Smith

July 21, 2023 – 9:46 pm

Ten years ago I flew from JFK to Haneda in Japan. The segment of my trip lasted 14 hours. The layover in Japan was two hours and the final hop to Bangkok took 6 hours followed by a 90-minute taxi ride to Sriracha. Sitting for twenty-six hours straight had flattened my ass, so my coccyx […]

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Fat is Beautiful for Feminists

July 13, 2023 – 1:13 am

Several summers ago Jamie Parker drove up on his motorcycle from Pattaya to Sriracha. Mutual friends back in the States had been casting aspersions against the paternity of my son. Mam had heard the same from her family. She offered to submit Fenway to a DNA test. I wasn’t having any part of it. I […]

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A MAN OF SPEED by Peter Nolan Smith

June 18, 2023 – 9:42 am

Father’s Day has complemented Mother’s Day since 1910, although the holiday remained unofficial for decades and most Americans treated Father’s Day as a joke, until LBJ proclaimed the Third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Six Years later Richard Nixon signed a bill to include Father’s Day in the American pantheon of holidays. “The only […]

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Father’s Day Gift

June 18, 2023 – 1:31 am

My father came around the world to see me and Angie in Thailand. Most of the time he had no idea where he was. It was the start of his decline. Frank A Smith II passed in 2010, but my father will always be in the here-now with the love I carry for him into […]

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