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2021-12-26
Sixty years ago, it was 2am and Sam & I hadn’t eaten all day and night. With our getting married at the Ontario, Oregon, Baptist Church, reception at the Ontario Moore Hotel and gift opening at my...
2021-12-21
It’s Christmas break and the dog Suki is growling as the sisters are bantering and sometimes getting competitive with “one-upmanship”. One enemy is “too much sugar” which eventually gets them into bad...
2021-12-13
Forty-eight years ago, 1973, when Sam and I built our new house off West Mercer Way, we were welcomed with neighborhood coffee hours. The Mercer Island City's Welcome Wagon gave us a basket of goodies...
2021-12-05
Similar to Emily Post for our western traditions and manners, those of us with Japanese Heritage also maintain various levels of GIRI. Yesterday, I was asked to pick up a distant cousin, at the airpor...
2021-11-22
THANKFUL FOR SMALL THINGS, BIG THINGS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN!
2021-11-22
The Yin/Yang principle suggests, we are constantly influenced by good and bad choices as we live daily. The goal is to keep a balance. Yin (literally the ‘shady place’) is the dark area. Yang (literal...
2021-11-08
Hearing a bullet whistle past my head, on the 38th parallel in the Korean War, I found that life became more precious. As a sergeant with the US Infantry, I came home with a commendation from the Pres...
2021-10-27
Growing up in the 1940s and 50s, those of us of Japanese heritage socialized mostly within “our own kind.” Our elders made special efforts for Japanese-heritage girls and guys to get together. When I ...
2021-10-21
Thinking of a time when I was 4 or 5-years-old. My Dad invited this German couple, Cookie & Agnes Koch, to move their trailer home onto our farm yard next to our house so they could hook up to our...
2021-10-09
Marianne and I had long conversations before she passed in September 2021. We were excited to move forward on her goal to help brighten the lives of the other 40 residents of Meadowbrook Nursing and R...