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Continue reading →: Lucky Calendar Days
In planning my son’s bar mitzvah (coming of age in the Jewish tradition – more on this later) here in Tokyo, I have come up against another tradition in the Japanese calendar. Most of the country goes along with the Western Gregorian calendar since the war. However, there are still…
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Continue reading →: Parenting and Writing
There are definitely days when I feel sorry for my kids. Having a writer for a mother cannot be easy. At ages 9 and 12, they have not yet discovered all the places where their lives are exposed for the world to see and on which to make comment. Not…
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Continue reading →: Zurriola – An Amazing Restaurant
This past weekend we had occasion to go out to dinner with good friends to a great, new restaurant called Zurriola in the Azabu Juban neighborhood of Tokyo, which is right near our home. It’s Spanish food, but of course with a Japanese flair. The combination of flavors excited the…
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Continue reading →: Critical Thinking as the Basis for Writing
The only way to thrive and succeed in a knowledge-based economy like the one in which we live now, is to view all content through the lens of critical thought. Not only do we have to focus on ideas, creativity and thinking, but we have to be critical about it,…
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Continue reading →: More on Keitai (cellphone) Safety via my Writing Partner
Last week I wrote about the dangers of texting and walking, and in a hint of irony, my writing partner, Alice, covered a similar topic on her blog on the same day. She took the problem one step further and discussed the new issue Japan is facing, which is people…
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Continue reading →: My Son The Writer
Last week my son had a conversation with my grandmother, his great grandmother. He had a school assignment to speak to someone – anyone he knew and could interview – who had a connection with World War II. My grandfather was a pharmacist on a hospital ship based in Europe…
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Continue reading →: Texting and Walking
I saw this article in the New York Times this week and since then, it has alternately resonated bleakly and made me laugh, depending on my state of mind at the given moment it enters my brain space. It’s about texting and walking and the inherent dangers and rudeness of…
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Continue reading →: Workplace Equality In Japan: What’s in it for Men? My Latest Article
My most recent article appears in Eurobiz magazine, the publication of the European Chamber of Commerce in Japan, this month. I interviewed Dutch native Wendela Elsen, a Human Resources consultant in Tokyo, about her passion for not only gender equality in the workplace, but also about the role of men…
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Continue reading →: Juggling Writing Schedules
Anyone who is an adjunct professor can tell you that one of the more challenging parts of the job is the schedule that changes every semester. Many full-time professors have this issue as well, but it is definitely most common to adjuncts. If one works at a smaller place, then…
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Continue reading →: Japan in Hawaii
This is one of the most interesting photos from our recent sojourn in Hawaii over the holidays. It is my two kids, ages 12 and 9, as they enter the submarine “USS Bowfin” which is parked next to the visitors’ center at Pearl Harbor, and available to tour along with…
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