DOUBLE ISSUE: Taiwan, the Internet, and book metaphors
Hello there! 👋 Last time I emailed you I was up at an old gold-mining village at the top of a mountain in northern Taiwan. This month I have finally started...
Your mind a mountain, letting the clouds pass by
Hello there! 👋 I am writing you from a small, former gold-mining village in the mountains at the northern tip of Taiwan. We have been here for a few days,...
Making
Hello there! 👋 I asked a bunch of my friends “What are you into these days? Or, if you had the resources, what would you like to get into?” It actually...
Keys and liminal spaces
Hello there! 👋 First time writing this letter on Leap Day. I actually rebooted this newsletter in mid-2020. On that last Leap Day we were 10 days away from...
FUN
HNY! 🎊 I was chatting with a recently retired COO of a transnational tech company about how to level up as an operations person. She gave me some excellent...
End of 2023
Hello there! 👋 Oh I really needed this winter break. In October we moved to Osaka, in November I went to Turkey, and in December I hit a large milestone that...
Continental edges
Hello there! 👋 I have been enjoying our new apartment in Osaka. Although just a few minutes from the busy city center, we are in a pocket of the city with...
Moved… TWICE!
Hello there! 👋 This month I moved… twice! First was moving my writing to a new platform. I have been on WordPress for a long time, and my previous 774 posts...
#EverydayKyoto no longer
Hello there! 👋 We found a new apartment in Osaka. We will be moving in about three weeks and putting our Kyoto apartment up for sale. September has been...
A remote island, and a cultural center
Hello there! 👋 It is the end of summer and the long, long, shared parental nightmare of “summer break” is now over. The children are no longer moping about...
This time, to the south
Hello there! 👋 Summer break is in full swing, and so we are taking advantage of a break in school to make some trips, and get out of the heat of Kyoto (which...
To northern Japan, to witness
Hello there, On March 11th 2011 I was working at the Apple Store in Richmond. My wife and our 2 year old daughter were in Japan for a bit of a spring break....
From a small island in Strait of Georgia
Hello there, I am sitting on the deck of a small cabin at Bodega Ridge, on Galiano Island about 1.5 hours from Vancouver. I have been here all this week on...
Over-socializing and other technology weirdness
Hello there! 👋 The month of 🌸 cherry blossoms underlined a new season for us here in Kyoto as we closed the books on a significant number of chores. It has...
From the Land of Fire
Hello there! 👋 I am on day 11 of living out of my suitcase, traveling around Kyushu. Spring break! For the first week we did a family trip to Kagoshima,...
Digging into the backlog
Hello there, After a hectic couple of months of travel, February has been a time to regroup. (Also, my Japanese visa is about to expire so I can’t go...
Liminal rumination
Hello there, The last few months have seen me on more than a few airplanes: Lisbon in October, Malaysia in December, and just yesterday I returned from more...
Fukubukuro
Happy New Year! It is the last day of the year and I am tired. It is almost midnight and I am watching New Year’s Eve Japanese TV and eating snacks. At 6am...
Thankful for friends
Hello there! 👋 The theme for the past month must be “social.” Firstly, I basically left the Twitter dumpster fire and started using my Mastodon account full-...
From the Edge of Europe to the Edge of Japan
Hello there! After two and a half years Japan opened its borders to foreign tourists. We are in a new phase of “With Corona.” Already in the past month I...