My passion is to write words and music. The words have been in stories, poems and plays. The music has all been for musicals based on the Bible. Obviously, I love Japan and her people and am trying to learn to speak the language. I have nine grandchildren.

by Bill York
Koki was perfect: beautiful, gentle, controlled, mysterious. Everything I loved about Japan lived in that one word: Koki. In the rain, I was walking back to my own hotel in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo. With a delicate, definite “No,” Koki had escaped to the room I was not allowed to enter, [...]