Archive | October, 2009

26 October 2009 ~ 17 Comments

Playing for keeps pt.1

I must apologize. The On The Couch series has been postponed. My intention was to give a blow by blow account of my sessions with my…well, with myself. I have not actually gone to a therapist in Japan…not yet. I didn’t write that post especially for entertainment purposes, though. It was an earnest attempt to self-analyze  through writing. My therapist persona [...]

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14 October 2009 ~ 10 Comments

A quick one while my heart’s away…

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Yesterday, suddenly, I remembered why I quit my job in NY and eventually came to live in Japan. And how I learned about my heart’s wayward behavior. I remembered that one day I was at my desk in Midtown Manhattan, looking around at the people I spent day after day for 7 years looking at, and suddenly I realized I [...]

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09 October 2009 ~ 11 Comments

President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize!!!!

President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize!!!!

Slightly off topic, but this is incredible news! He was the surprise winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize beating out French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The committee cited his work on nuclear disarmament. Congratulations President Obama, Michelle and family.

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09 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Yet another

(found the following short story I wrote last year…it made me smile which means more to me right now than it sounds) Yet another Lisa had dropped by. She’d do that sometimes, out of the blue, and we’d watch movies and have sex. We didn’t have much of a relationship aside from that. I liked [...]

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08 October 2009 ~ 2 Comments

The Speech Contest pt.2

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As promised in part 1 of this post, here is the speech my student gave. Is he great or what? Unfortunately, in order to move on to the Prefecture championship round, you have to be one of the top 5 of this group of 55 students. My student was number 6. Chyo Yabai!!! But he took it [...]

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