Office Hours and Chinese Dramas – Pandemic Homeschool Diaries
This week (starting April 27) was supposed to be the week the schools reopened. But oh well, we’ve got a pretty good system in place...
Published in April 2020
I too was subject to the strange temporal phenomenon of an eon-like March and an April that passed in the blink of an eye. But...
Dust Bunny
In the original U.S. release of Studio Ghibli classic My Neighbor Totoro, makuro kurosuke were translated as “dust bunnies.” Dust bunnies, Nanny explains gather in...
Music I LIke – Unusual Instrumentation
I admit I spent many years in the thrall of rockism. Music was supposed to be five guys (it was always guys, too, wasn’t it)...
Lake Union Dragon Boats
It’s a little-known fact that Seattle has a handful of dragon boat clubs. When I discovered this, I dragged the kids down to Lake Union...