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Continue reading →: “Glee” – My New Perspective
I took my daughter to see the “3-D Glee” movie last week. It hasn’t been open long in Tokyo, and since she had a day off from school, lunch and the movies seemed like a good plan. As a rule, I’m not a fan of “Glee.” Perhaps I would be…
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Continue reading →: Pedestrians – oh my.
Before you start reading here, please be aware that this post is a bit of a rant. I know it, and I have to do it. The pedestrians in Tokyo are really getting under my skin. When my kids, particularly my son, were small, I spent a lot of time…
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Continue reading →: Time Management
Since starting back with teaching this fall, and the kids in two new schools, I’ve had to get used to a few new schedules. I teach at the high school every day in the mornings and then also Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at Temple University. After 4pm I like to…
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Continue reading →: Sumo – Up Close and Personal!
Recently, our lives have been full of Sumo, thanks to my husband, Marc’s, colleague, who is a supporter of the Sadogatake Sumo Stable. What does this mean? First of all, the place where Sumo Wrestlers train is called a “stable” – and each stable is slightly different, like each gym…
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Continue reading →: The Travails of Being a New Cyclist
Here’s a picture of me on my bike. And then here’s a photo of the bike itself. It’s big. It’s really heavy with that huge battery in the back, so it’s also a bit unwieldy. But it is really neat to be a cyclist in the city, I’ve found. I…
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Continue reading →: My Tokyo
I took a run this morning, and of course, listened to a podcast. This one was on the Selected Shorts show – it was an essay by Colson Whitehead (author of 2009’s Sag Harbor and Zone One which comes out next week) called “Lost and Found.” The entire essay focused…
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Continue reading →: The Gift of Group Reading
This month’s book was Let The Great World Spin by Collum McCann and I spent last evening in the company of six delightful women discussing it, several related books, and various other topics germane to reading, but also to women in general. Being a member of a book club, especially…
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Continue reading →: The Great Shoe Debate
Like any good New Yorker (where I trained in the art of workplace etiquette), now that I’m working and commuting, I try to wear my flip flops or sneakers to work and then change into proper shoes when I get to school. For years now, I have noted that women…
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Continue reading →: Transitioning to a Traditional School – Learning To Take a Test
My son, Bailey, except for first and second grades in a traditional American school in the U.S., has spent the majority of his schooling life in a Montessori classroom – even for preschool and kindergarten. He’s a textbook Montessori child – curious, self-motivated, and interested in a variety of subjects.…
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Continue reading →: National Azabu Supermarket – A Tribute
During my first days in Tokyo, I had this plan that my husband, our kids, and I would eat only Japanese food. We would live like Japanese, cook like Japanese, and for two years just be Japanese. It was April 2003, and the children were babies – just shy of…
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