

Happy New Year
Today is New Year's Eve here in the Shonan beach area of Kanagawa Japan. Soon, 2020 will be a memory. So much has happened this year. It...


Ice cream luck
Ice cream has always been one of my favorite desserts. Wait! Let’s hold on for a second. Did I say dessert? I meant to say that ice cream...


I love where I live
I love where I live now. It’s peaceful and idyllic. The sea goes out in one direction as far as I can see. In another direction, the...


A kiss to remember
I was trying to think of happy moments in my life. Actually, this is the beginning of the story, so I was trying to think of happy...


Community boozing
Today's entry will be a short one. It's 12am and I have just come home after drinking most of the day. The people in the photo are the...


That time I went off the deep end
Every time I write an entry I try to remember my childhood. I switched away from simple comments about pictures. Doing that for 284 days...

Christmas cheer and Christmas fear
Christmas was one of my favorite holidays. Every year we gathered at my grandparents’ house to celebrate. My grandmother loved to spoil...


Wizards and Gang Bangers
My mom gave birth to the four of us at a very young age. She was 20 years old when she had the first and 25 when she had the last. She...


A river of ones and zeros
It is getting more and more difficult to write daily entries about nothing. But, I cannot give up. I still have more than 200 days left...

$1000 to the ones who survive
There used to be a saying that went “boys are made of snips and snails and puppy dog tails. Girls are made of sugar and spice and...