Kalikiano KaleiBorn as a Chinese 'Fire-Dog' (in Chinese astrology), the author was likely also born under a wandering star, since his life has been a rather interesting mish-mash of confused circumstances and improbable adventures of absolutely no lasting consequene whatsoever. Born to career military officer and an aristically inclined school teacher, too late to join the so-called 'Beat' writers and not inclined to explore the succeeding 'Hip' generation, the author nevertheless pursued interests in aerospace medicine, history and East Asian civilisation, while skirting the heady atmosphere of Berkeley (CA) of the early 1970s as a writer. These interests later took him to the Middle East (Southwest Asia) where he worked for the Royal Saudi Government as a civilian consultant in defense and aviation technology. A frustrated author of admittedly VERY mediocre ability, he has in recent years gathered many earlier writings together in a modest collection of works containing stories, poems and anecdotes experienced over past decades. A resident of Sacramento (CA) and Moloka'i (HI), he presently is retired and living in Sacramento (CA) with his Chinese wife and a small pack of Siberian Husky dogs (who dopubtless regard him as only an 'Omega' member of the family pack). As the United States continues to disintegrate chaotically in a cultural graveyard-spin (in 2017), he looks back at his Vietnam USAF service days wishing that he would have sought political asylum in Canada instead, at that time, and still thinks about Canada wistfully from time to time, as cultural chaos threatens to destroy the 'Great American Experiment' we know as the United States. Read More Read Less