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2025-07-07
Today, the national news is about the Texas floods. I’m not a big fan of Gale King, but I want to commend her for interviewing this family with two boys around 5 & 7 years of age who were successf...
2025-06-28
The Fudeko two-day conference was headed by Professor Hana Maruyama. My purpose in attending is because I have gathered stories of our Japanese in the Pacific Northwest experiences since 1970 when I w...
2025-06-28
2025-06-23
OMOIDE is a program where I love being one of the leaders, since 1991, when Margaret Yasuda, Dell Uchida, Chuck Kato and I started meeting in my kitchen weekly to start. Janine Brodine is our coach....
2025-06-17
This week my daughter's gotomedia company was hired to do a project with Sam Altman's OpenAI company. Today I'm listening to Deepak Chopra suggest we are nothing. but. zeros and ones - maybe "'1 - on...
2025-06-09
It’s not easy, and I fail a lot. I’m listening to trial attorney, Jeffrey Fisher’s podcast: HOW TO STAY CALM WHEN YOU’RE DISRESPECTED. With my Japanese heritage, it’s given me kind of a head start...
2025-06-03
My older daughter’s husband got laid off today from Disney. Our immediate reaction is “Oh No!” Next, the thoughts are that we are in this uncertain climate of life. It seems they have prepared for t...
2025-05-29
Seventy years ago I thought I was strong in science and math so I chose nursing. Girls, in the 1950s, became teachers, nurses or secretaries. I loved Lewis and Clark College, but I hated the prac...
2025-05-19
The word is “becoming”. It’s an ongoing process. Five best friends that I had for over 50 years left me last year. My soulmate best friend left this world seven years ago. For those last seven years, ...
2025-05-05
The picture is still clear in my mind, 70 years later. I am standing in the outside stair-well that leads into the church basement. The sun is shining, but I feel cold and the confirmation that I am n...