Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
I’m running surveillance on the cherry blossoms by the stream near my house daily. Maybe I’m crazy, but when it’s warm it seems like the branches visibly swell and droop with the added weight of sakura buds. Today did nothing for this phenomenon—it was cold and cloudy and the lows dipped into the 30s. The…
Little teasers, little teasers! Warm weather last week, a bit of sunshine, spring rain that’s soft, not biting. Birds, wild paperwhites, daffodils, trees full of big fat heavy blossoms, green weeds sprouting everywhere…sheesh, Mari, it’s like you’ve never heard of spring before! Right well, I’m from Texas = hot and no, I’ve no memory of…
“Foreign hair models wanted,” read an ad for Hayato New York. I called. We chatted. A few days later I was seated in their posh Omotesando studio for the longest haircut of my life. My stylist, China, has cut hair forever at hotel salons around the city, but she was switching from ‘ethnic’ hair to…
This song doesn’t particularly apply when separated for work reasons, but still. I first heard it of course on Jones College Radio while Chris was deployed. . “Around the world I’ve searched for you I traveled on when hope was gone to keep a rendezvous I knew somewhere, sometime, somehow You’d look at me and…
Here’s what’s nice about being home: the kitties! The night I got home from Sasebo I dropped my bag in the entryway and collapsed in a heap on the couch, every arm muscle numb from dragging heavy things around, especially my purse with my laptop and my bag packed full of the multi-weather requirements of…
Paper cranes at Peace Park, next to the statue. The Peace Statue “This statue was erected by the citizens of Nagasaki in August 1955 on the 10th anniversary of the devastation of this city by the atomic bomb. Thanks to contributions from Japan and abroad, the ten meter bronze statue, which was designed by Seibo…
My mom thought it was hilarious when I told her even kids wear the germ masks if they have a cold or something. She asked for a photo, but it’s kind of tricky to get pictures of kids without looking like a freak. Well, this adorable little boy was absorbed in his video game and…
