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Continue reading →: Kids and Art
A rainy Saturday in the city calls for a bit of creativity on the part of the parents. Luckily in a dynamic place like Tokyo, it’s not all that difficult. What we decided on was the National Art Center, Tokyo because they have a Renoir exhibit that is only here…
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Continue reading →: Metaphor: Cultural and Literary
According to the field of psychology, humans use conceptual metaphor to make sense of their world. People describe things in terms of other things. A common use of conceptual metaphor is war imagery when citing arguments. For example, people “pull out the big guns” when they argue. Or they speak…
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Continue reading →: Shibuya Crossing
On Sunday, my husband and my kids and I were in the car, driving to see friends for dinner. We don’t normally drive around to see friends; we normally take a taxi or the train. In fact, most often we simply walk. But this time we chose to drive the…
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Continue reading →: Teaching Writing – lesson one
I have a doctorate – a doctor of arts degree – from George Mason University. The National Center for Community College Education is at GMU and the degree is through the center. Students go into the program with a Master’s Degree, and then in addition to courses in a major…
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Continue reading →: Toilets
No bathroom humor, please. In Japan, toilets are serious business (no pun intended). Much of the ethos surrounding bathrooms, bathroom etiquette, and toilets in general stems from the strong Japanese ethos regarding cleanliness. According to some research, the earliest Westerners, mostly from Europe, in Japan in the eighteenth and nineteenth…
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Continue reading →: Seeing Like A Writer
This week we spent three days at Shiga Kogen in Nagano skiing. The weather could not have been more perfect – sunny and about -2 Celsius every day. My kids and my husband are great skiers and I’m still mediocre at best, so while they were off at lessons or…
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Continue reading →: Sumo!
This week at my children’s school, the Montessori School of Tokyo (www.montessorijapan.com) the Japanese Culture Committee brought in Sumo wrestlers to meet the children. The two wrestlers, or rishiki, Houchiyama-zeki and Ookouryuu-san, talked with the kids about the sport, let them try a little wrestling and then answered any questions…
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Continue reading →: Reading to Write
By all accounts I read a lot. I often read a book a week, in fact. I read all types of fiction, some popular and some classics. I enjoy the occasional “beach read” as my mother calls pulp fiction and I also love more complex works that challenge my brain…
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Continue reading →: The Top Ten Things I Miss About Tokyo
Let me preface this post by saying that I did not write on Tuesday because I did not have my computer. The reason has, in part, to do with what I miss about Tokyo and bits and pieces of what I miss about Tokyo that CAN be found in the…
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Continue reading →: Language as Definition
The other day I was having a chat with a very good friend. She is a real linguist; she speaks Korean, Japanese and English with equal fluency and has great insight to the nuance that each one presents. Because I’m taking Japanese lessons, the intricacies of the language are often…
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