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F or the past month my attention has moved way from the sort of writing that characterizes the usual posts in Scriblets, eyes turned instea...

J apan’s major English daily, The Japan Times , carries a weekly column dubbed Essential Reading for Japanophiles and is one I look forward...

D esigned by Kengo Kuma & Associates and completed in December of 2013, Sunny Hills is a cake shop in the Minami Aoyama district o...

T angled up on the sofa wrestling with the dog two nights ago, television playing in the background, my attention was caught by a commercia...

‘Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.’ — first line of Their Eyes Were Watching God S he was part of the Harlem Ren...

January 3, 2014 W oke up to frosted windows, a first time sight in this country house. The old plastic thermometer hanging on a back po...

January 2, 2013 M y fourth day in an orbit far from the Internet began with an almost bark. Nothing apart from bed and a warm blanket i...