Kneading challah bread I glimpse @ my weather app Snow in Hakuba! 🙂 Context: Ski season starts and ends late in the Japan Alps. Typically monstrous bases of 200 cm+ are assured by late January. Somehow, every year I tempt fate and book into Hakuba hoping for early flurries. It looks like we are inContinue reading “Weekly Haiku from Tokyo December 16, 2023”
Author Archives: Adam Brownstein
Weekly Haiku from Tokyo December 11, 2022
By Adam Brownstein Mikans oh so sweet Come in five kilo boxes Chanukah’s soon! Readout: Mikan oranges from the island of Shikouku are a staple in wintertime. The first crops hit markets in early October for a bout $5 for five sweet fruits. December through February supply starts to steal the show, and 5 kgContinue reading “Weekly Haiku from Tokyo December 11, 2022”
What I read this week December 10, 2023
By Adam Brownstein in Tokyo Book of the Week: Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis. Living in Japan, I have often marveled (sometimes cringed) at the intensity of East Asian rivalries. For about eight centuries, the strum and drang of relations between China and Japan, Japan and Korea, ChinaContinue reading “What I read this week December 10, 2023”
What I read this week Nov 22, 2022
By Adam Brownstein Book of the Week: Imagine a City: A pilot’s journey across the urban world by Mark Vanhoenacker In the balmy summer of 1982 my parents plocked my little brother and me on to a TWA 747, and led us I on whirlwind tour. We hit London (Paddington Bear, yes, please! Early greyContinue reading “What I read this week Nov 22, 2022”
What I read this Week Nov 15, 2022
By Adam Brownstein in Tokyo, Japan Book of the Week: If/Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore My very first job out of college was serving as a policy research plebe on small business for the U.S. government. Hopping around from Red States to Blue States (Birmingham on Tuesday and BuffaloContinue reading “What I read this Week Nov 15, 2022”
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What I read this week – Nov 8, 2022
By Adam Brownstein in Tokyo, Japan Book of the Week: The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre On a misty Big Sur morning in 1995 I sat with 50 other GMs @ Noah’s New York Bagels in a tranquil lodge overlooking the sea. We wereContinue reading “What I read this week – Nov 8, 2022”
In a pickle
By Adam Brownstein Unrecognizable. Dysfunctional. WTF! These descriptors popped up again and again in the parlance of my expat friends who had visited America of late. Most of my good buddies tend to have strong opinions about material and trite topics alike, so I ingested their kvetching with a few grains of salt. Being bothContinue reading “In a pickle”
Down the Shore
By Adam Brownstein “How’re we doing, Frank? Getting close???” “Nearly there, Mrs. B. Just need to fenaggle a bit down below. You’re almost there.” “OK. Not sure how much longer we can hold on.” The exchange between my mother and Frank, the Doorman of 2727 Palisade Avenue, occurred during a sweltering August morning in 1975. Continue reading “Down the Shore”
The Tokyo Yenta 