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Continue reading →: Positive Press – Lost With Translation!
My book, Lost With Translation, or in Japanese Hen-na Eigo (weird English) came out in January, and now it’s getting positive reviews in the the Japanese press. Please go out and get your copy from Amazon.jp if you live in Japan. If you live elsewhere, contact me, and perhaps I…
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Continue reading →: Some Weeks Are Better Than Others
There are some weeks where it just doesn’t come together. Everyone has them. Somehow, though, for a writer, it’s just disheartening when it happens. I know a number of writers for whom this is true. Writers, as I’ve mentioned here before, don’t have a boss, have no water cooler for…
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Continue reading →: The Highest Bakery in Japan
This past week I spent three days in Shiga Kogen, in Nagano prefecture. It simply breathtaking up there in the mountains. The clouds actually float below some of the peaks and it’s possible to see for miles with the clarity of the sunlight. When skiing there, you can go up…
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Continue reading →: Parenting: A Journey
I’ve learned quite a bit about parenting this week. Maybe it doesn’t have a lot to do with writing, but frankly, anything that has to do with me has to do with writing. This week, my husband, my daughter and I are off skiing. Where is my son, you might…
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Continue reading →: It’s the Little Things I Love about Japan
I had coffee with a friend the other day. I ordered the coffee, and noted that there was sugar already on the table, but when the coffee arrived, and I had to ask for milk. A moment later, the server brought the tiniest pitcher I had ever seen. I think…
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Continue reading →: Sports, Reading and Belonging
First of all, let me start with the confession: I did not watch the Superbowl. Okay, stop throwing rotten tomatoes at me – I know plenty of people who didn’t. But, I do hope that those who watched it had a great time. More power to you! My husband is…
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Continue reading →: Japanese Efficiency
The city of Tokyo, ku of Minato (a “ku” is like a borough of New York) is laying new gas lines in front of my house. The construction will take approximately six weeks, if I’m looking at the information properly. The city placed a sheet in my mailbox a while…
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Continue reading →: The Writer Edits
Every writer has his or her own process for working. I’ve met people who write slowly and edit as they go, so each sentence comes out pristine and ready-for-action. These people labor over the words and how they want to craft their ideas on the page so that the product…
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Continue reading →: Tokyo Amusements!
This is a photo courtesy of Marc Weinstein, my husband. Every day on his way to work he passes parking lots, but this particular one gives him pause. This is it – the whole parking lot. The entire lot is made up of one parking space. Japanese efficiency at its…
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Continue reading →: Introspection Examined
In recent weeks, especially since visiting my family, I have noticed that I have become rather introspective. In speaking with friends and colleagues, I’ve found that I’m not the only one. Anecdotally, I observed that women these days are turning more and more to their own internal thoughts and ideas…
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