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…
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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…
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…
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…
Dreams and Writing; a New Adventure
I usually remember the anxiety dreams. I wasn’t expecting dreams and writing to merge. I still remember the nightmare when I was five years old. A roving crash of rhinoceroses…
My First Workshop: Complete Your Memoir Proposal!
My first workshop is about to begin and I’m ready to share the 411! I DO: Completing Your Memoir Proposal in 2021 How do you finish a memoir proposal amidst…
Craziness on a Cracker: A Brief, Exciting, Recap
Life here has truly been a bit of craziness on a cracker. I’m embarrassed at the lack of updates I’ve shared. And embarrassed is putting it mildly. I’ve been in…
More Writer Distractions? Ugh! I Can’t Focus!
Major revisions to the memoir are done and everything is in the hands of my beta-readers. I’ve tasked myself with working on the proposal for that memoir, hoping to get…