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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...
2023-05-08
As we gathered at the Panama Hotel this first Sunday in May2023, we had a surprise visit with Jamie Ford. He shared that he has purchased a DARUMA for each of his books. He blackens in the pupil of th...
2023-04-28
HEAVEN is every expanding goodness! Hell is “stagnation”. According to many visionaries we can think ourselves into heaven or hell. We all have free choices, living in America; but I like some of Japa...
2023-04-24
Seattle’s MOHAI (Museum of History and Industry) in collaboration with Seattle’s JACL (JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE) debuted the PRIDE AND SHAME exhibit early in 1970, chaired by Tomio Moriguchi,...
2023-04-11
If you want to know about the history of Michi Hirata North, google https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/classical-music/ Michi is a “best friend” and has been for over 50 years. What I’m able t...