Category: Personal
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I live in a tea house. In Kyoto. So things can’t be that bad.
I’m tired. I get up. I get kids ready. I go to work. I work… hard. Then I come home. Make kids eat. Wash kids. Then try to make them sleep. Then I work on 18 different projects. Then I sleep. Then I do it again. I understand that millions of other people do the…
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First George Takei and now Michelle Obama too… on how you know you must be a teacher…
I love George Takei. Since I was in the movie theater with my dad and watched him fly around that Huey with all that “transparent aluminum”, and then, later, listened to him speak on so many important issues… I just love him. I also love Michelle Obama. I think she is an amazing woman of…
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Why does La Vie en Rose make me feel nostalgic?
I need to travel some more. I think my passport is getting rather boring. When I was a kid I was so excited to get new stamps, but now my passport is filled with US and Japan stamps. I need to get out of this loop. Where should I go first? I need to find…
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Have a moving Obon, my friends, and be safe, loved, and with family
I hope everyone had a lovely Obon with their families. I said goodbye again to a dear friend and sent a lantern and a prayer for him down at Arashiyama this evening. I hope everyone had a chance to be together, and to be loved.
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Gareth Lochhead, I’ll miss you forever
This morning I sat down at my computer and logged into facebook to see that the world had lost one of the kindest souls I have ever had the pleasure of being able to call my friend. My heart hurts terribly, for his loss is so unexpected, so early, too soon, and I ache for…
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On my way to #JetProgram Orientation in #Tokyo, then bound for #Kyoto
I am exhausted. I thought last time we made this world-trek I was exhausted, and it was just my husband and I. This time we had to pack up an entire house and 2 kids. I need to sleeep. About to get on the first flight of the trip. See you on the time-zone flip…
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Just found out my placement for the #JETProgram … but I can’t tell yet!! #excited
I am SO excited!! I just found out where I will be placed in Kyoto prefecture (we have been waiting almost 2 months now) and I am SOOO happy! I can’t say yet, I signed a form saying I wouldn’t until I was officially contacted… but I CAN say I am super GEEKED out right…
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Kyoto Bound
Well, actually I just know so far that I will be in Kyoto Prefecture. I have no clue where in the prefecture I will be. I could be down in the city, or up in the mountains, or out by the sea. All I know is that we got our first choice again, and I…