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OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE OF BEING 1. Today (Monday) I am tired and not because of all that hiking but because of worrying about blogging...

FIRST, ANSWERS TO READER Q’S : Yes, more food photos are forthcoming! Yes, you saw a sailor suit in the photo of the girl riding the train...

A SLOW LEARNER CATCHES ON   I finally understood why I am seeing so many little children everywhere (especially in Matsushima), but no...

1. TIME ZONES : My blog remains set to US Central Time. Thus the time and date listed for each post is Madison time. I am 14 hours ahead of...

THE BUCK STOPS WITH RAW CUTTLE FISH [Matsushima at sunrise, from my window] I am what you might call an adventurous eater. But as I’v...

THAT WAS ONE LONG TUNNEL! This morning I started my trip to Matsushima. It took four separate trains and a total of eight hours to get th...

HOKKAIDO CRAB AND GREENERY DAY Last night I went to dinner at Ebi-kani Gassen. It is a miracle that I found Ebi-kani Gassen. My Lonely Pl...

PEACE This afternoon I took a train to the town of Heiwa (which translates as Peace). It is a town that is not in any conventional gui...

TEMPTATION If Blogger hadn’t given me the gift of direct photo posting, I would not have spent the first hours of the night-morning t...