Three miles from my house, there sits a church atop a hill. I've driven by it several times on my way to a much newer church about 20 m...
Happy List
I'm feeling better. I reserved a flight to go see Friend in December. I miss Friend and have been pretty horrible at keeping in touch. ...
Good Game
I like to think I'm a good spectator. I pay attention and cheer when appropriate. I understand rules and get emotionally involved so t...
Radiant
"How's the mood?" my doctor asked as I sat perched on the exam table in her office. She pressed on my face and looked up my n...
Being Seen Naked
"We're getting artifacts," he said apologetically. "Could you take off your pants?" "Sure," I chirped, ha...
Peacocks, Pride & Paths to Follow
I barely stopped myself from gloating, preening like a pretty, pretty peacock for I had emerged from an argument victorious once again. It a...
Colon Capital-D
I walked with Chienne this morning, shivering against the cold and raising my face, eyes closed, to the sunshine, blinking them open to gaze...
Details
"There was a building with multi-colored cubes," I told Adam as we walked down the street in Seoul, "and another building wit...
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It was several months after I'd received this job - after the new house and car, after putting in the fence and beginning to travel - th...
Revelations
1 - Muscle Pain and Tennis Balls I have seen many massage therapists and received multiple bits of advice to keep from knotting the muscles ...
Closed
I returned home from our morning walk to find birds in the rafters of the garage. I frowned at the tiny creatures, their feathers brown in ...
8-[
I suppose it started last night. Unable to sleep, despite drugs encouraging otherwise, I continued to go up the stairs to toss and turn and...
Change is.
"I enjoy you," I confessed, slightly tipsy on sake, to a man several levels superior of my position. "You're smart and v...
1 2 3 4
We're near the end. There's little more. I write this approximately 15 minutes from the halfway point on my flight from Osaka to Sa...
Moderately Important Person
I grew up in a solidly middle class family. I wanted for nothing - we went on vacation almost every year (normally to Florida), ate out onc...
Putting the 'ooh' in Ueno*
*Though I'm not positive it's actually pronounced with an ooh. My guidebook maintains that there are three components to Tokyo - Nor...
Dizzyingly Dramatic
I am uncharacteristically uncertain about my feelings for Tokyo. It is not as I expected - having arrived on Saturday, it is less busy and ...
Surprises
I apologized for sleeping through a meeting yesterday, adding a bow or two for good measure and settled in my chair for the busiest day of m...