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The Blood of Dunbar: The Forgotten Holocaust of the Scottish Covenanters
Most students of American history are familiar with the standard narrative of New England’s early settlers: the Mayflower, the Puritans, and the quest for religious freedom. But there is a darker, hidden foundation stone buried beneath the soil of early Massachusetts. It is a story born of cold rain, political betrayal, and a brutal military disaster […]
“Blood Moon” lunar eclipse across the Americas
Lunar eclipses occur when Earth moves between the sun and the moon and its shadow is cast on to the lunar surface. In Thursday night’s event 96% of the moon will be darkened by the Earth’s shadow at its peak moment. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/27/lunar-eclipse-north-south-america WordPress has gotten really wonky with the “quotation” formatting, so I hope this […]
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 […]
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Family Day? Not in Japan
One of the problems with maintaining a blog about child raising is that the child-raising itself takes so much time that thee is little time to blog about it. If I thought I had little to,e last year while on … Continue reading
Posted in colleague reactions, family outings, Japan, parenting, work
Tagged child care, child-raising, fatherhood, Japan, Japanese, parental leave, Paternity leave, work, workplace hostility
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The Tanakas, “tenkin,” and “o-mutsu-koukan”
A few weeks ago (before all the hospital melodrama), I took my daughter to a nearby supermarket…which had a “baby care room” on the second floor, next to the roof parking lot. We had been invited by a Japanese couple … Continue reading
Posted in gender roles, roles, work
Tagged at home dad, child care, child-raising, fatherhood, gender roles, Japan, Japanese, job transfer, parental roles, shopping, tenkin, work
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