Earthquake Day 7: Questions Answered
tokyokevinPeople have been writing back to our family, mostly with support, but also with some questions. I hope this will help. How far are you from the nuclear plants? We…
Fat but not happy
Just returned from a month of restaurants in the US, and that means an expansion of the waistline. I also bought 4 pairs of pants to replace my worn-out slacks…
Vonnegut’s 8 Rules for writing fiction
Kurt Vonnegut is in my top 3 writers. Here are 8 reasons why. From the entry in Wikipedia. In his book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Vonnegut listed eight…
88 Yen
adminThat is how much a dollar costs these days. Glad I stopped sending money over there about 3 years ago. Sorry I sent over so much in the years before.…
Quarterbacks, Teachers, and Financiers
What they have in common? Skills that cannot be easily measured. This is the point of a very long article by Malcolm Gladwell at the New Yorker: Most Likely to…