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Continue reading →: Bicycles!
One of my favorite pictures from our trip to Taiwan a few years ago was taken on the street while we waited for the light to change so we could cross. The cars stopped, as expected, in a neat row as the light turned red, but then the bicycles and…
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Continue reading →: Home At Last
I have been away from Tokyo for eight weeks now, and just arrived home Tuesday night. I had a wonderful summer in Washington D.C., but the feeling of arriving home to “my” life and “my” stuff is incomparable. Within minutes of arriving at Haneda Airport, I knew I was back…
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Continue reading →: The Top Ten Things I Miss About Tokyo
It’s about that time of year again, when I do the list of things I miss about my adopted home when I am away from it for so many weeks. So here we go! Walking everywhere – I spend so much time in my car in Washington DC – even…
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Continue reading →: The New Yorker Fiction Podcast
As a writer myself, I often tout the benefits of reading as a way of improving one’s writing. Not only do I read a lot, but I also listen to a lot of podcasts that have short stories read aloud to me. One of my favorites is the the New…
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Continue reading →: The Native American Indian Museum, Washington DC
It’s tourist season in Washington DC, and none of the sights are particularly new, but some are new to me. Last week I had the opportunity to go to the Native American Indian Museum with my mom, who was visiting from Florida, and it was quite an experience. The museum…
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Continue reading →: It All Starts With…
I have a scene in my head from my lunch with Marc this week, and I can’t get it out of my head. At the table next to us, an older couple was sitting, enjoying their lunch. They had not only ordered the set, restaurant week menu, but like us,…
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Continue reading →: Restaurant Week!
Every summer I think I’m going to miss the food in Tokyo, and every summer I am pleasantly surprised by something in the U.S. This week is restaurant week in the Bethesda/Chevy Chase area of Maryland, which is essentially suburban Washington D.C. For this special week, a group of restaurants…
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Continue reading →: Airline and Cultural Issues
When the phone rings at 3:45am, it’s never a good thing. This time, thank goodness, it wasn’t life or death, but merely an airline emergency. It all started after the earthquake when I realized that our nanny, Minnie, was having quake-related issues. If you don’t know, Minnie has been working…
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Continue reading →: I Have A Daughter, Too!
I write so often about Bailey and his issues and antics, that I have woefully neglected my daughter, Sydney, who is just as interesting as her brother, but in a wholly different way. Since Bailey is away at camp for much of the month, I have had the singular experience…
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Continue reading →: Packaging in Japan
The Japanese people take their packaging very seriously. A little while ago I went out to buy a plant at D2. Not only did the store employee put the plant, pot and all, in a bag for me, but she also took the two handles of the plastic bag, and…
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