A room mate’s in love. He drinks less. He laughs more.
He went out shopping for colourful shirts and ties. “For the job interviews” he says. “And, well, her.” Of course.
Talk of what she’d like in dim lit restaurants, and which one brings out his eye colour more.
Something about love that makes a person handsome.
1 year and 3 months ago, I met a girl here in San Francsico. I wrote about her on this post, for she recognized me for writing this blog. “Are you Ayumi? I read your blog” she said. It was the same day I shopped for golden shoes to wear to a friend’s wedding.
Since then the shoes have gone […]
Duane brought his telescope, we saw moon craters, and the giant ring of Saturn. A man came by holding a cigarette, “what’cha all watching?” he asked.
“By golly, look at that!” He works as a guard, he said. He watches the goings on behind security cameras. “One time a big bee flew by, I almost fell […]
“I want to skip the whole 9 months pregnancy and just have a baby in my hands right now, preferrebaly at age 2″.
“Are you kidding?!” I asked.
“Oh, I want mine” began another girl “popped into my arms at age 10. No child rearing, just a child. Or maybe at age 20, that might be better…”
“What’s […]
I reach the shy Chinese co-worker walking up ahead, he’s half a foot shorter than I, we engage in a first real conversation while we walk to the train station.
“I was more shy before” he said, “before I did sky diving. 75 percent of me has changed since then, I think. I like to surf […]
Between spare minutes in the office, I sent a book to a publishing company.
The 28-page picture book is called Santa Ponta’s Journey, written by me in Japanese and English and illustrated by Yoko (my brother’s girlfriend, most imaginative, charming friend). It’s taken us years to come this far, a gradual metamorphosis to put together a […]
2 couples, 4 friends. 22, 30, 38, 46.
All of us, 8 years apart. Much closer than we imagined. Spent a good Friday night.
Photo credit-Claudecf’s photos / and Club 166 (came upon his blog while searching for the number 8. Thank you for letting me share the photo Joe.)
A joint birthday celebration with Kanta and our mutual circle of friends took place in a beatnik inspired couple’s wooden lodging. A surprise awaited, carefully planned by Sachi who contacted my dad months earlier. Never did I expect to see him on their big screen, talking to a crowd of us. How did he manage […]
“Not many people this week”
“Nice weather, I wonder why”
Two ladies offered us a spot on the wall of an empty sand box. It was their 9th weekend tiling the playground with community volunteers.
Juxtaposing a sketch that a group of children had envisioned for the wall, we pondered for a while which broken tiles best […]
