peaquah wrote 1 year ago: The fire alarm goes off at lunchtime and the students don’t react. The Sensei stand in the hal … more →
peaquah wrote 1 year ago: “This time is crucial,” the Sensei tell me when I hobble into school on Wednesday. … more →
peaquah wrote 1 year ago: We’re slowly transitioning from bright, sunny, happy days where I ride my bike joyfully to sch … more →
peaquah wrote 1 year ago: I’d say around half the time I go to the Massage Parlor (aka therapy for the elderly) they giv … more →
peaquah wrote 1 year ago: Auntie and Linds are home, we assume, because we’ve been getting emails from them that say: Yo … more →
peaquah wrote 1 year ago: We’ve heard zipola from Auntie and Linds in Hiroshima except a hastily written and completely … more →
peaquah wrote 1 year ago: Nice to see you again. I am back at work after a very rambunctious ten-day holiday in which I not on … more →
peaquah wrote 1 year ago: The first rule of writing: no dreams. It’s pretty creepy, first of all, to read about an 80-ye … more →
peaquah wrote 1 year ago: It’s a handy thing–having another country directly at fault for whatever goes wrong in m … more →
peaquah wrote 1 year ago: For about a year and a half now, Johnathan and I have lived in a state of perpetual fear that the ga … more →
peaquah wrote 1 year ago: If I’d know that all it took to make friends with Japanese people was frequenting the local os … more →
peaquah wrote 1 year ago: My hair and I are, it seems, in a constant state of disagreement over what one, in their early twent … more →
peaquah wrote 1 year ago: We live in a refrigerator. Frozen meat on the counter takes days to defrost. The batteries in our ho … more →
peaquah wrote 1 year ago: Hajime, the masseuse, graduated from K-Town’s high school so-and-so many years ago. He was an … more →
peaquah wrote 1 year ago: I bought myself a duck hunter jacket. It is green plaid and tiny-sized and was originally going for … more →
peaquah wrote 2 years ago: There are dozens of metaphors one can use about living in another country and trying to figure out h … more →
peaquah wrote 2 years ago: The cat and the rat were the worst swimmers in the animal kingdom. Although bad swimmers, they were … more →
peaquah wrote 2 years ago: I’m not sure how to casually introduce the idea that there’s a gangster funeral across t … more →
peaquah wrote 2 years ago: Well, I’m back from my hiatus of persimmon-picking and sumo-watching and visiting florescent S … more →