my sister sent me another one of the stories she wrote in elementary school. this one is about our two cats, as superheroes ( Read more... )

these days i mostly think about loss. that doesn't mean i am sad ( Read more... )

i am now in lima, peru. i really should have studied spanish. i don't know what i was thinking ( Read more... )

my sister is making origami cats. my other sister is doing her physics homework. i am eating frozen blueberries and thinking about everything else i should be doing ( Read more... )

Just returned from some travels that were very lovely. Nagasaki, all in lights and gleaming 60 years after the atomic bomb, with bright thousands of paper cranes around the city, for peace. And Mt. Aso, an active volcano that is not red and bubbly with lava, but mint green and pale canary yellow, and very deep in the ground. Rachel and Anna and ( Read more... )

tokyo: i love you ( Read more... )

GOOSEBUMP ( Read more... )

you can imagine my delight when i accidentally walked by ll cool j performing downtown today. i stopped for a while near the porta potties, watched him dancing on the large projected screen, and went on my merry way. and let me tell you, my step was quite a bit lighter with the sweet sounds of ladies love cool james ringing in my ears.

we've got to milk this life for what it's worth.
and, you know, it's worth everything.

i went to su casa yesterday, the latino family shelter where laura is living this summer as a full time volunteer. while laura gave an english lesson, i sat and played with a pair of kids and a big ball of play-dough/clay stuff: just sitting quietly, the two of them young enough that language wasn't yet a barrier between us, creating and then ( Read more... )