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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 star...
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 ...
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 pra...
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...
2025-04-27
Floyd Wilfred Schmoe (September 21, 1895 – April 20, 2001) was a Quaker, pacifist, author, college professor, marine biologist, and park ranger living in the Seattle, Washington, area for most of hi...
2025-04-17
In 1942 during WWII with Japan, about 9000 of us Japanese were put into prison in Southern Idaho where we lived in Block 5. I was eleven and my brother Ted was twelve. Dad, being a businessman, had ...
2025-04-07
Auntie Chiyo will be 99-years-old next month, May 2025. She has moved at least 16 times in her life. She had just turned sixteen when she was rounded up with the 9000+ Seattle Japanese and taken by b...