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About

Let me introduce myself. I am Michael T. Miyoshi. Personally, I am a Christian, a husband, and a father. Professionally, I have been an engineer, I aspire to be a writer, and I am currently a teacher and coach. I tell you who I am because like any writer, I write what I know.


A veteran writer once told me that I should stick to one type of writing. Children’s books, novels, short stories, poetry, or anything would do. Just stick to one type and more specifically, one genre. Unfortunately, I had to follow my heart and not his sage advice. Consequently, I still write short stories, columns and essays, poetry, songs, and I have even started writing a novel or two. This site will give you peeks into my life and some of my projects.


Most recently, I have focused my writing efforts on a weekly column. This column can be seen at www.mediocreman.com. These columns also appear in The RiverCurrentNews from time to time. I call my column Musings not only because it is part of the title of my first book, Musings of a Mediocre Man, or even just because I like alliterations, but because that is really all I do when I write. I just think about stuff and write. And for some reason, people like to read it. At least that is the hope.


For more information please contact me.

Why Mediocre Man?

My family members have told me that they do not like the fact that I call myself Mediocre Man. They think that it is not very flattering. They think that it belittles me. But I like it. I like it because even though I do not consider myself mediocre, I do think that I am just an average person. I think that I am what some might call an everyman. Which I hope is the draw for people to read my writing. I just write about normal, everyday stuff. I write about the things that an average Joe like myself would notice or think about everyday.


My first book is called Musings of a Mediocre Man. It is an eclectic collection of poetry, short stories, and essays that I wrote when I was in my twenties and published in my thirties. I named it because I like alliterations and could not figure out a catchy title for an average guy just writing about everyday stuff. Musings seemed to fit my writing and mediocre means average so Mediocre Man was born to create the alliterative title, Musings of a Mediocre Man. I use Mediocre Man as the title of my website and will surely put together another book of musings some time in the future.


Lastly, I am sure that you also noticed that Mediocre Man fits my alliterative name (Michael T. Miyoshi) too.


I hope that you find my writing to be more than mediocre. I hope that you find it entertaining. Mostly, I hope that it makes you think about life and what is truly important.