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BOOK LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT!
If you open an early American historical ledger, you will witness a quiet, bureaucratic violence. On the yellowed pages of parish registers, military rolls, and census tracts, the names of ordinary people undergo a strange, unsettling metamorphosis. A proud Scottish surname is flattened by an English soldier’s hurried quill. A French-Canadian patronym is chopped and […]
I was not sleeping on my summer vacation…
Check this blog space later tonight (or morning, depending on where you are) for an important, dare I say, historical announcement! Doki doki. Waku waku. (I was definitely not sleeping much over the past three weeks, and my calloused fingers and discolored laptop keyboard are the proof…)
Hibernating through space: An old idea, finally possible?
The key would be whether this is possible in humans. And, of course, whether revival can be timed and automated – or perhaps with robotic (AI) assistance… Of course, science fiction has posited “sleeper ships” for decades now. The Songs of Distant Earth (Arthur C. Clarke, one of the “Big Three”) is probably the most […]
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Category Archives: Japan
Taking Leave: The Book
When men don’t help raise their own children, when men insist that women raise children and stay at home for life, society as a whole suffers. Continue reading
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Tagged child care, child-raising, gender equality, Japanese kids, women's issues
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Sleep, perchance to…
One of the biggest differences since we moved into a house is the sleeping arrangements. When our oldest daughter was a baby, we were living in an apartment with a traditional Japanese straw mat (tatami) room and no bed. So … Continue reading
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Tagged child-raising, cultural differences, Japan, parents
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Organic dining with kids
I owe my love of organic gardening to my father, who started growing his own vegetables on the Methodist Church property behind our apartment in the “oil crisis” of the early 1970s. From him, I learned how to compost, properly … Continue reading
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