10 May 2022 Today we’re going to talk about real estate. Moving to Japan, as I did in 1988, both delighted me and surprised me. Experiencing the new and different…
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A Mighty Wind
28 April 2022 Today I’ll take a strange visit to history. The story begins with a monk who happened to be a painter of Buddhist art. His name was Zōshō…
Every Time
18 April 2022 I rented a car for my third date with Hiro, unsure if my old Mitsubishi Charmant’s brakes would appreciate the mountain roads to Chichibu for the Night…
A Queer Holiday
8 April 2022 Calendars trigger memories and Monday of this past week, the fourth day of the fourth month, dredged up a few. One of the best aspects of my…
Getting to Know You
29 March 2022 The year is 1855 CE. The Tokugawa family has ruled Japan as shoguns since the beginning of the seventeenth century. Travel around the country increases, because the…
Hybrid Memoir: Trivia, My Life’s Remarkable Truths and Secrets
From the beginning, I had planned to write a hybrid memoir. Even if I didn’t know that was what it was called. That’s not actually true. At the very beginning,…
Being Gay in Japan, Sharing Secrets in Seattle
content warning: graphic language I attended the JET35 Conference here in Seattle this past weekend, May 20 and 21. The conference commemorated 35 years since the start of the Japan…
Birthing a Powerful Newsletter was Fast and Easy
I resisted the notion of a newsletter for a long time. Mostly because I was uncertain. Aside from my memoir, what could I say? What value could I offer to…
Querying: Round Two
I was ready for more querying. The first full version of the proposal for Crying in a Foreign Language was ready by the end of January. It clocked in at…
Marriage Equality Trajectories; the Research I Needed
I recently authored a scholarly essay on the trajectories of marriage equality in the United States and Japan, and compiled this timeline as part of my research. Setting the Scene…