Dear Friends, It’s incredible how much is happening with a few of my girls around the globe. They’re so incredible that I wanted to share two stories with you all. Maybe you’re out there doing your thing too, or looking to start something, or looking for some fantastic woman to be motivated by, so let me […]
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Chiaroscuro 5:
October 18, 2012 
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There’s a black and white photograph on the floor: The woman’s moving in it. She’s beautiful. (Wonder if she knew that then.) She’s young. Maybe 30, maybe 35. (Can’t tell.) She’s earnest. She has an afro that’s not perfectly round or picked out. She has smooth milky-chocolate skin. Kohl rims her eyes. Unlike the girls […]
Read moreThe Apt: Small and Sweet
October 4, 2012 6 Comments
Hi Friends, Today’s an exciting day! The other day DS asked me how my move was going, and I confessed that I’d been so busy with work that I hadn’t packed, moved anything into the new place, or even bought a futon. When I waited for the gas man two days ago, it was on […]
Read moreFood and Friends: “We Happy And Smiling ‘Cause Now We Living Good”
October 3, 2012 0 Comments
Hi Friends, I promise you there won’t be a Komatsuya post every week, but… A few days ago, I asked B and LD if they wanted to go to Komatsuya in Ningyocho to be extremely carnivorous. B, who’s enjoyed the Komatsuya experience, and LD, who had yet to feel the pleasure, readily agreed. As I thought about it some […]
Read moreAn Interlude: Life’s a Musical Thing
July 6, 2012 2 Comments
In music, one doesn’t make the end of a composition the point of the composition. – Alan Watts Dear Friends, This evening, I met up with R in Ginza to belatedly celebrate his birthday. For those of you who don’t know or remember, R is my fellow American and incredibly awesome housemate from Borderless House. He’s a […]
Read moreBalloonery
July 5, 2012 0 Comments
A balloon is an inflatable flexible bag filled with a gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, or air. — Wikipedia Dear Friends, 1) Today, I spent the afternoon with B and LD in a Kagurazaka, a part of town I’ve never visited. Kagurazaka feels like the suburbs or countryside; there are trees and large houses […]
Read moreBurning Rice Fields and Other Things
June 26, 2012 4 Comments
I know you’ve come a long way baby, but you don’t need that heart of stone. You proved that you can do it baby, you can make it on your own. But, you can’t keep running away from love, ’cause the first one let you down. – Shalamar (The Second Time Around) Dear Friends, 1) It […]
Read moreSoup
June 22, 2012 5 Comments
Soup: 1: a liquid food especially with a meat, fish, or vegetable stock as a base and often containing pieces of solid food. Dear Friends, This post has a lot of liquid and a few things of substance. Life soup with the week’s events cut and diced. 1) Yesterday, my student M told me that at his alma […]
Read moreFantastic Asakusa
June 8, 2012 6 Comments
Dear Friends, On March 21, my friends and I formulated a list of twelve things we had to do while in Tokyo; among them, my three that have been completed thus far are: 1) Visit Tokyo Tower 3) Visit Sensoji in Asakusa and 4) Take a trip to an onsen in Hakone. Slow and steady wins the race. Tomorrow, […]
Read moreKaizen, Tying it Up, Last Night, and Supernovas
May 18, 2012 6 Comments
1) Yesterday, I taught Hiro K. Correction, I had a student named Hiro yesterday who taught me. At my language school, we’re told to follow “the method” closely, and to use the book which lays out the way a lesson should progress (in detail). It’s easy, and sometimes quite boring, so it’s the student that makes each […]
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