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”
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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”
Homecoming
June 1, 2022 — By Adam Brownstein The first real time I spent outside the United States was the Spring and Summer of 1992. Whitney Houston’s crooning ear worm “I Will Always Love You” (oooo-ooo-ooo) was #1. A blueblood President from Texas (by way of Kennebunkport) toasted the end of the Cold War (also knownContinue reading “Homecoming”
The Tokyo Yenta 