Reclaiming snowShe liked to go skiing alone. People were always surprised when she told them. Aren’t you afraid? Isn’t it dangerous? Don’t you get lonely…Mar 22, 2022Mar 22, 2022
A few hours of one’s own; to potterOverall, I like what I do for my day job— some parts more than others. I think I started down this road (Japanese literature/ Japanese…Mar 20, 2022Mar 20, 2022
Two catsTwo cats sat in the window, watching the world go by. One had a white belly and gray stripes on her back, and the other one was a tabby…Mar 1, 2022Mar 1, 2022
To sketch, to depict, to describeI have given one or two academic presentations about Meiji period (1868–1912) writers and their discussions on realistic description, and I…Feb 24, 2022Feb 24, 2022
Your mind is a monkey…is what our yoga instructor keeps telling us, and every time I imagine a little monkey inside my skull, jumping up and down trying to…Feb 18, 20221Feb 18, 20221
I have to write about MariyanWell, of course I don’t have to, but I guess I should, because I said I would a few posts ago (here, when I first mentioned Nakajima, and…Feb 17, 2022Feb 17, 2022
Literary walks in KansaiIn Japan (and maybe in other places, too, but I wouldn’t know) there is such a thing as a literary walk (bungaku sanpo), where you go…Feb 10, 2022Feb 10, 2022
I played with AI todayThe other day, my husband shared a link to a little project about human-AI collaboration by this PhD student at a university in Australia…Feb 7, 2022Feb 7, 2022
Sweet child of MeijiYou might be familiar with Akutagawa Ryūnosuke because of Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 movie “Rashōmon,” which is based off of two of his…Feb 5, 2022Feb 5, 2022
Pierre Loti: not your best ball guestThe name Pierre Loti came up in my previous post, where I talked about Nakajima Atsushi’s stories of the Southern Seas; in probably the…Feb 4, 2022Feb 4, 2022
