Posts by Garry

Tuesday, March 17th. I remember this day vividly. It was 6 pm. The sun in the cold, Minnesota sky had already set over the horizon. I walk home after a tutoring session with my chemistry teacher, a meeting for the Medical Club, and an hour-long badminton practice after school. Both my feet dragging through the…

When the lockdown started and I wasn’t able to go anywhere, I remembered back a few years ago when I used to be constantly writing short stories. I stopped doing that as much because I was always so busy with school or helping out my parents. I then remembered an idea me and my friends…

The Swan Woman and the Snapper Lady “Did you hear about Venice?” A young man was shouting into his phone as he jogged past me on the bike trail in Lincoln Park the day before all the lakefront parks were closed. “The fish are back!” he yelled. I’m a retired conservation ecologist so my ears…

It was only days before the emergency orders were announced in mid-March in Toronto that I grasped the scale of the pandemic and its profound effect on our lives. Depending on who you ask, this realization was prescient (to judge by ongoing outbreaks, many have yet to arrive at this) or belated (after all, the…

I used to laugh at my mother. As soon as she opened a jar of coffee or a bag of sugar, she’d run out and buy more. Actually, she’d usually already have a couple of unopened containers stashed in the closet somewhere. I couldn’t stand it. “Why do you do that?” I’d hector her. “You’re…

I had an amazing opportunity to continue my thesis research project, Finding Ryukyu after graduating with my Master’s in Fine Arts from University of Maryland, Baltimore County. I was awarded the “Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor Prize” from Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies with my thesis work. The decision for the award was unanimous.…