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2026-08-09
Socially connecting is one of the important life managing activities for a fulfilling and healthy longevity. The Nisei Veteran’s organization in Seattle manage a lunch program on the first Friday of ...
2026-07-30
Listening to an Oprah podcast, I thought, “I want a Maya Angelou mentorship in my life.” Then it occurred to me that I could learn to be a Maya Angelou for others. I don’t have to be six feet tall. I ...
2026-07-19
It was the Friday evening session of the 2026 Japan Fair at the Bellevue Meydenbauer Center. My red ticket stub numbers matched the numbers drawn and called out by Tom Ikeda. I was sitting with Lori...
2026-07-13
Heidi, Guess who I had lunch with today. Vanna Novak! The eight of us Asian women introduced ourselves around the table at the Chinook restaurant, near the Ballard Bridge. When it came to my turn, ...
2026-07-01
“EVERY CHILD CAN BE EDUCATED” -Dr.Shinichi Suzuki A Spring day walk, April 1967, around the block on Seattle’s Capitol Hill with our 3-year-old, changed my life! That was when I was talked into st...
2026-06-22
One of my commitments now, at age 87, is to use our examples of the Japanese in America experience here in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, with our attention getting story of the WWII incarceration...
2026-06-15
My mother, Mary, like Jacquline Kennedy, similarly agreed to an arrangement. Like the Bouvier/Kennedys, my paternal grandfather was ambitious, and had resources in Japan. My maternal grandfather had ...
2026-06-11
Today was lunch at Sushi Joa on Mercer Island with Elaine and her two younger brothers Darrell & Zen Kitamura. This occasion follows the first meeting, two weeks ago, with Elaine at the Seattle Public...
2026-06-06
This acquaintance gives me and some others a bad time every time we meet. Some of the time it’s supposed to be funny, but I don't always like it. It comes from deep emotions and dealing with life. It...
2026-05-29
The last few days have been days of synchonicities! I attended the Seattle Public Library Session - Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Island Summit 2026. My daughter was one of the speakers and p...