Tokyo – 2025

It is Saturday, June 21st, 2025 and I’m in Shibuya at the Mikkeller bar. This is Danish beer that my friend Jonas told me about when they opened a place in San Francisco. It lasted for about 7 years but was hit hard by COVID. I’ve been to Mikkeller in Shibuya before but it was…… Continue reading Tokyo – 2025

Tsuruse – 2025

I’m sitting next to a small stream next to the apartment I lived in 24 years ago here in Tsuruse, Japan.  This is where the my first job after college – the English school Nova – placed me and I spent a year here with three roommates who came and went.  I still remember my…… Continue reading Tsuruse – 2025

Convenience Store Woman: A Novel

I never really thought about convenience stores in Japan although I’d frequent them when I lived there as well as when I return ever summer. For me, I’ll always get my vitamin drink (D-something, which tastes a bit like medicine) as well as sample the new beers as well as purchase my old favorites. It…… Continue reading Convenience Store Woman: A Novel

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A Month in the Country

For the past two years, my favorite books have been about pre-industrial life in the country, mostly England, Spain, Japan and France in that order. This was another book about life in those times and although it is fiction gives me a little more feeling as to what those times must have been like. Here…… Continue reading A Month in the Country

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I Am a Cat

I don’t recall where I heard about this book but it was in my “to read” list. I enjoy books written pre-1900 because it gives me insight into history. With only history books and a few videos taken in the early days of video recording the past feels formal, dry, without any feeling. Reading books…… Continue reading I Am a Cat

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