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Mini-homestay with Hippo! June 18th
One of the activities that the Hippo family club supports is homestays across the globe. In this spirit Alex and I were invited to...
harp, 23 June 2006 |
Now This is Scary
I've occasionally wondered what we might be doing to ourselves by prolonging daylight with the use of artificial lights. A study by the...
Shirane School Festival Day 3: Exhibitions (Friday, 16...
The last day of the school festival was just as entertaining as the first two. Once again, the ichinensei weren’t allowed full...
Shirane School Festival Day 2: Sports (Thursday, 15 June...
The second day of the school festival was just as much fun for me as the first day, but in a different way. The first day was great...
Shirane School Festival Day 1: Stage Performances...
I had been taking afternoons off quite often because of all the vacation I have left so I was hardly aware of all the preparations the...
Yes! Frazz!
It's been a while since I've posted a Frazz comic here (I always worry about the line between fair use and copyright violation), but...
The Three Billy Goats Gruff and Other Stories
We gave Jonathan a copy of the Three Billy Goats Gruff story, and if the words aren't exactly as I remember my father reading them to...
General Update June 8-13
It’s only been a week since I last wrote and I can’t remember what I did! Class were a bit less than fun when I had 40 kids,...
A Novel Way to Encourage this Generation to Breastfeed
A recent New York Times article on the effort to promote breastfeeding includes this interesting line: Nursing may even produce a...
Flag Day, June 14
In honor of my father, who knew to display an iris on this occasion.
And So It Begins
I know hurricane season began June 1, but really, we're not supposed to have to think about this till August, at least! Yet here is...
A Few Jonathan Stories
I'm too busy playing with Jonathan to write much about him, but here are a few delightful Jonathan-isms: I'll friz it to you and you...
Picture Update!
It’s been a quiet week, if you don’t count panic trying to plan my arrival home and future life. I led the last mixed Sunday...
General Update Sunday May 21st – Saturday June 3rd...
Sorry I didn’t have time to sift this into separate posts. Gambate (fight)! I haven’t gone into Tokyo often, but I’ve...
Science Museums
We went to the Orlando Science Center last weekend. Because they had three new movies we hadn't seen, we didn't have much time for...
Mere Discipleship
Mere Discipleship: Radical Christianity in a Rebellious World , by Lee C. Camp (Brazos Press, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2003)...
Kodo concert in Tokyo Saturday May 20th
Leslie Soule planned and arranged for any interested JETs to meet up in Tokyo for a Kodo concert. Kodo is a famous taiko...
Memorial Day, 2006
This Memorial Day I honor my grandfathers, who served our country in World War I. Howard Harland Langdon , 219th Aero Squadron...
It's Not About What You CAN'T Do
During my lifetime I've watched the Deaf community teach the world to see them as people, rather than as people who can't hear. This...
RETHINK - Children's Church and Sunday School
In her Christianity Today article, " Faith Like a Child ," Scottie May reviews two books on children and faith: O. M....
Gaaaaack! It's Almost June, and We Know What That Means!
Yep, hurricane season is almost upon us, though I doubt there'll be much to be concerned about before August. The National Oceanic and...
The 42-Mile Weekend
I rode my bicycle to church! One of our two churches is still out of reach, 20 miles away and much of it not well suited to cycling,...
RETHINK - Transportation
When we lived in Rochester, New York, we had one car and could go for days without using it. We rode our bicycles to work; we walked to...
RETHINK
Several months ago, our local newspaper (or perhaps it was Parade Magazine ; I don't recall) asked readers for their one-sentence...
End of the Week Update Wed-Fri. May 17-19 (kimono,...
Surprisingly, it’s been another busy, but wonderful week of experiences. Wednesday I took the afternoon off (I had no classes) and...