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2022-05-08
“Mom, you should get your feet fixed!” “I know, but I’m not in any pain. I just can’t wear heels. Guess I can’t wear open toe shoes either? Everyone asks me what’s wrong with my toes.” Mom 83 responde...
2022-05-02
“STORIES AT THE PANAMA” is being created because I want to BE INVOLVED IN THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE BETTER. My husband, Sam, passed four years ago after 56 years of a wonderful partnership. Therefore, I’m...
2022-04-21
Growing up, getting a spanking was not part of my household nor that of my relatives. It was not part of my husband’s and my thinking as we raised our two daughters. We learned with gossip about our r...
2022-04-10
I first learn to play games like CHUTES AND LADDERS. As a preschooler, my parents and my siblings play with me and let me win most of the time until I finally learn not to cheat and play by the rules....
2022-03-30
Today, as I was leaving the Panama Hotel Tea and Coffee Shop, I met Sally. Five minutes earlier or later, we would have missed each other. The reason this was a “serendipity” is because this morning, ...
2022-03-21
Today, I had coffee/conversation with Nana at Seattle’s Panama Hotel Tea and Coffee House. One of our discussions as I showed her the book, IKE’S PRINCIPLES started with Luis, the barista. “Luis, how’...
2022-03-12
Youthful mind is part of IKIGAI: letting the 60,000 thoughts each day cross like clouds, carrying a spa with me wherever I go and knowing when to get in, reaching state of “flow”. Which of my activiti...
2022-03-10
This week I signed up for a seven day workshop with Evan Carmichael because the title, THOUGHT LEADERSHIP is energizing. As the sign on my bathroom wall says: “BE INVOLVED WITH THINGS IN MAKING LIFE B...
2022-02-27
We were living inland, beyond the 400 miles from the Pacific Coast restricted area. Four years previous to December 7, 1941, six households, 11 adults and 15 children, led by my Grandpa K Tsukamaki; m...
2022-02-21
One of my best friends is proud to not be vaccinate and has had a light case of the Covid-19. She is fine with those who feel the vaccination is the way to go, but parts of her family won’t talk to he...