It is 6:26 AM on Sunday November 7th, 2021. Daylight savings time ends today. I had thought I’d woken up early and was glad since I would have plenty of morning peace time but then I realized my phone clock did not match up with the kitchen clocks. So we shall see how long the…… Continue reading Journal Entry – Current affairs, cryptocurrency, blockchain
History of Tokyo 1867 – 1989 From EDO to SHOWA: The Emergence of the World’s Greatest City
Tokyo is part of my past, my present and my future. I lived in Mejiro from 2002 – 2004 and attended Waseda university just a few stations south near the fun to say Takadanobaba. My family returns to Japan for the summers and I spend a few days on my own in Tokyo drinking beer,…… Continue reading History of Tokyo 1867 – 1989 From EDO to SHOWA: The Emergence of the World’s Greatest City
Bubble Gum Alley in San Luis Obispo
Gum Wall Being here, seeing all the cool college bars, student studying, hearing live music makes me reminisce. I want to go back to college. Such a good chapter in my life. This ambiance here in California is a bit different from Ohio State but bars are bars and college students are college students. Good…… Continue reading Bubble Gum Alley in San Luis Obispo
Saturday Evening in Linda Mar
Saturday Evening
Journal Entry – 9.26.21
It is 7:38 AM on Sunday morning on the 26th of September 2021. I’ve often written that life had sped up an an incredible pace once I reached the mid-30s. Well now it is about three times the speed it was and months really do pass as quickly as I perceived days to pass when…… Continue reading Journal Entry – 9.26.21
San Francisco – Nob Hill
Grace Cathedral front door
Hostess’s Song – Saijō Yaso 西條八十
I am a bar flowerThat blooms by night.Rouged lips,Gauze sleeves,Mad dancingBy neon light,A flower watered by tears. I am a bar flower, A sad flower,By evening a girl.By day a mother.Tear-dampened sleevesConcealing the past.They are heavy as the nightwears on.And not with dew. These are the first two stanzas of the Hostess’s song by Saijō…… Continue reading Hostess’s Song – Saijō Yaso 西條八十
Dream Journal – Studying in Japan
The time is 6:40 AM on Thursday, September 9th, 2021. We’re back into a more normal routine for the first time in a year and a half due to COVID. The kids are back in school and we have gone back to karate class. I think this routine and exercise have brightened my mood quit…… Continue reading Dream Journal – Studying in Japan