Mom is Japanese, Dad is Taiwanese. We lived there for less than a year, so I don't remember too much about life in Hawaii. After that, we lived in Taiwan, Pittsburgh PA, and Boulder, Colorado, where my sister Marice was born. I think that Woodstock, the Beatles, the moon landing and stuff like that was going on, but I don't really remember too much of that.
Small town feel, lotsa dust.
I rode my Big Wheel TM in said dust for a while, and then served several years in the Lubbock Independent School District. I was a typical Asian Child, meaning I spent a lot of time indoors, practicing the violin, going to math and science club meetings after school, and pretending to study for the SATs. However, I also spent a lot of time drawing and reading comics and science fiction. I always figured that at some point I would grow out of the stuff and turn into a responsible adult like my parents. Once high school ended, I bolted out of town and settled in Austin, Texas, where I proceeded to be a college student for the next eight years.