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2021-12-30
According to Vilfredo Pareto, economist/sociologist of the early 1900s, 80% of the Italian wealth belonged to 20% of the population. Economists further determine that 80% of outcome in a business is a...
2021-12-26
Sixty years ago, it was 2am and Sam & I hadn’t eaten all day and night. With our getting married at the Ontario, Oregon, Baptist Church, reception at the Ontario Moore Hotel and gift opening at my Unc...
2021-12-21
It’s Christmas break and the dog Suki is growling as the sisters are bantering and sometimes getting competitive with “one-upmanship”. One enemy is “too much sugar” which eventually gets them into bad...
2021-12-13
Forty-eight years ago, 1973, when Sam and I built our new house off West Mercer Way, we were welcomed with neighborhood coffee hours. The Mercer Island City's Welcome Wagon gave us a basket of goodies...
2021-12-05
Similar to Emily Post for our western traditions and manners, those of us with Japanese Heritage also maintain various levels of GIRI.Yesterday, I was asked to pick up a distant cousin, at the airport...
2021-11-22
THANKFUL FOR SMALL THINGS, BIG THINGS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN!
2021-11-22
The Yin/Yang principle suggests, we are constantly influenced by good and bad choices as we live daily. The goal is to keep a balance. Yin (literally the ‘shady place’) is the dark area. Yang (literal...
2021-11-08
Hearing a bullet whistle past my head, on the 38th parallel in the Korean War, I found that life became more precious. As a sergeant with the US Infantry, I came home with a commendation from the Pres...
2021-10-27
Growing up in the 1940s and 50s, those of us of Japanese heritage socialized mostly within “our own kind.” Our elders made special efforts for Japanese-heritage girls and guys to get together. When I ...
2021-10-21
Thinking of a time when I was 4 or 5-years-old. My Dad invited this German couple, Cookie & Agnes Koch, to move their trailer home onto our farm yard next to our house so they could hook up to our ele...