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2023-08-04
Today, I listened to a Lex Fridman interview with Joscha Bach. What impresses me is the work these scientist are doing at MIT University with development of AI. It is clear that the intelligence crea...
2023-07-16
The place is Birch Bay, near the Canadian border. It was Labor Day 1960. I was 21 and Sam was 27. Sam and I had been dating, but this was the first time we spent the whole day together. Dating within...
2023-07-11
What an experience! Yucatan and learning about the Mayan Culture was also one of Grandpa Sam's favorite trips. Kirin says, "I learned about the 'privilege of death' in their culture. How there is this...
2023-07-11
Josh is 6 foot 5 inches tall and likely headed for being recruited for football. He just completed his freshman year of high school in Santa Cruz, CA. His grandma paid for him to attend the SeaHawk F...
2023-06-23
I'm being asked to read this story at the yearly Lantern floating event. Mary was a distant relative of my mother's family from Hiroshima. It seems that many of the bomb survivors were even stronger b...
2023-06-20
Today, I spent the afternoon playing Shanghai Rummy with 97-yr-old Auntie Chiyo “Onions” Nakanishi. Chiyo and her daughter, Ellen, downsized to the Villagio Apartment complex on Yarrow Bay in Kirkland...
2023-06-15
Last week, my granddaughter and I went to Uwajimaya Asian Market to choose a hostess gift for her to bring to the Yucatan. She was embarking on a High School abroad experience in Merida, Mexico, for f...
2023-06-04
One of the Seattle elder social events in the community of those of us with Japanese Heritage in 2023 is the Nisei Vet’s first Friday of every month Luncheon organized by Keith Yamaguchi and his wife ...
2023-05-21
The Mercer Island Middle School musical BEAUTY AND THE BEAST was performed Friday night and twice on Saturday this weekend. It was fun and the directors were even a couple of the students. They were r...
2023-05-17
The youngest pioneer was a three-week-old premie The completion of the Owyhee Dam in 1932 provided irrigation for row crop faming in Eastern Oregon and Western Idaho in an area called the Treasure Val...