WHAT'S NEW
2020-07-13
It’s an 18-inch Japanese blue Imari porcelain serving plate. It may have been old when my Great Grandma Matsu was using it over 100 years ago in the late 1800s. Sam and I found it as we climbed the la...
2020-07-06
This morning I listened again to a YouTube video by Adm. Wm. McRaven - MAKE YOUR BED. I’ve had his book for years, but it’s important to reaffirm: “Making your bed seems insignificant, but if you get ...
2020-07-01
Going to the dictionary “leveraging” means: “to use something that you already have, such as a resource, in order to achieve something new or better: This new strategy is about leveraging the relation...
2020-06-23
Today, I found myself suggesting, out loud, “Now that things are getting tough, learning starts!?” Here’s the issue. On March 13th the girls got their long time wish. They got a Bernedoodle puppy “Suk...
2020-06-14
Our cousin marched in the Seattle 2020 Protest event carrying a sign: ASIANS FOR BLM. Dr. Ibram Kendi was just on BOOK TV talking about his book: HOW TO BE ANTIRACIST. He ended his talk with equating ...
2020-06-08
The vagus nerve is the longest cranial nerve in my body, connecting my brain to my heart, lungs, and stomach. It helps aid digestion, sleep, and breathing and it controls my anxiety, depression and mo...
2020-06-03
Bunshiro was Sam's father, Nisaburo's cousin and known best as the owner of the Tazuma 10-Cent store at 12th and Jackson in Seattle's International District. He was around the age of 30 and lived to b...
2020-05-26
My daily bedtime treat is a hot bath. I never got in the habit of showers. Studies show hot bath benefits for sleep, cardiac health, arthritis relief, blood flow to all parts for all our organs. My ea...
2020-05-21
Researchers trace the origin of spring cleaning to the Iranian Nowruz, the Persian new year, which falls on the first day of spring. ... Traditionally, the Catholic church thoroughly cleans the church...
2020-05-14
We are in the middle of the Covid-19 Isolation. Ike created Principle #11 when he was dealing with racial unrest as administrator of Seattle's Atlantic Street Center in the 1960s. The positive express...