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Religion

Girl’s Day

February 7, 2005 Japan

As we drove through Chinatown this past weekend, we saw preparations for the Chinese New Year’s celebrations. Many were carrying sprigs of cut plum blossoms which are just starting to bloom so we bought some to go with the Girl’s Day display which we set up each year around this time and keep up until [...]

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Harley-Davidson, Japanese Engine?

January 7, 2005 Hardware

I took my father in law out to visit a motorcycle distributor where he was hoping to get a distributor for the high end wheels made by Dymag, a company he owns. While it’s always interesting to step into a new industry and learn a bit about it, one of the more juicy bits [...]

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Christmas Eve

December 24, 2004 Religion

We were invited to the Central Baptist Church by Betty, our landlord of two months, while we looked for our house. The service was an hour long. We sang a few hymns and had the lyrics conveniently projected onto the screen behind the pulpit, listened to a short sermon, then watched a short film that [...]

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Playing Father Christmas

December 20, 2004 Religion

Tonight I had the rare privilege of keeping the dream alive for some 70 kids who came to our street to visit with Santa. Our street gets totally decked out in lights for the month (we even got covered in the SF Chronicle) and to cap things off, we have a little Santa’s workshop thing [...]

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Little “t”

July 13, 2004 Religion

I’m in Tokyo for the week catching up with the family who has been here for the past month and a half. Earlier in the year, Izumi negotiated with a local kindergarden to see if we could send Tyler (5) to their school for June and July while Japanese schools are still session. I had [...]

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The Perfect Gift

April 8, 2003 Religion

I know exactly what to get Tyler for his next birthday . . .

From catholicshopper.com.

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