Google launched real time search, where information uploaded seconds ago is matched and brought up in search results. Read more here.  It’s also launched Google Goggles, where instead of typing in key words, you can use a picture to find what you’re looking for. What fascinates me, more than the expansion of possibilities (like solving crime, […]

Christmas is almost here, I perk as I open the advent calendar, one window a day. I should probably advertise my book, Santa Ponta’s Journey, because it would make for a good Christmas present for people of all ages. It’s written both in Japanese and English, and illustrated in full colour by Yoko Nishimura. Here’s how […]

At toddler’s music class yesterday, a little boy drew attention from the circle of mothers and nannies, when his nanny proudly proclaimed that his mother was single, and that his dad was a donor whose genes matched the demands of his mother. “I think it’s great!” she said.
I’ve never thought about it, but suppose you’re […]

As dawn approached, several American Indian tribes danced around a fire, to a beat of synchronized voices that sounded like exemplified breaths of a long distance runner. Many witnessed this event, while behind their silhouette of feathered head dresses the sun rose above the San Francisco Bay, bringing to us a sensation of life, as […]

So the surprise to Paul last weekend started with an American Indian ceremony on Alcatraz and extended two nights at a hot spring camp site.

Can you tell which way we’re going along the California coast?

Evan and Erin, do you recognize this bridge?

“Best gift is the present”. Haha, cheezy cheezy.