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Ceramics
I spent a pleasant hour this afternoon painting ceramics with Jason and Pinky at Harajuku Togasha. This shop on the corner at Jingumae crossing has a “mini experience” program that ends this month, so we jumped on the chance to play. I am tempted to return before Friday for some more painting. Today I…
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Kafunsho already?
The hayfever forecast says we are only barely feeling the effects of cedar pollen, but my body is ramping up with itchy eyes, a sore throat and sneezes. Even my skin itches already! Gone are the years when my allergies were still tuned to the pollen of Pennsylvania. I am fully allergic to spring in…
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Strawberry Fields Forever
Ichigo-gari with Heather and Zio yesterday in Tochigi yielded 1.6 kg of berries. The berries are grown in long hothouses through the winter. Another month or so and strawberries will be off the local produce menu until autumn, so I am glad to have picked some this season. We’ll have frozen strawberries for summer smoothies. Tod was…
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Breaking up with Facebook
Last July, I wrote about my Jekyll and Hyde relationship with Facebook. I announced my intention to cut back my personal use and only update hoop events. And I did for a while but then I slipped back into using it like an addict. So this time I mean it. I am breaking up with…
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Chika-hatsu
On a chilly Tuesday holiday you must get out of the house and go somewhere fun. So yesterday we made our way to the Subway Museum in Kasai. Riding the subways every day, you get to love them and we’ve wanted to visit the 地下博 for many years. Finally, we did and it was great.…
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Snow Day
I am delighted by today’s snowfall. It’s been drifting down since morning and about 20 cm have accumulated. This is the most snow I have ever seen in Tokyo. The city is quiet. We took a walk in the afternoon, and families were in the parks throwing snowballs, building yuki-daruma, and making kamakura snow houses.…
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Jo and Andy!
I love visitors and especially when they are Jo and Andy. I was their houseguest in Brighton when I toured with the WHD Dance in 2012, so I jumped for joy when they said they were coming to Tokyo. They are simultaneously outgoing, chill, and adventurous which makes them delightful to hang out with and…
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Winter Hoop Dance
I joined a group on Facebook called The Hooping Game. Players are assigned songs, then have 48 hours to make a hoopdance video and post it back to the group. I got my song yesterday morning and braved the almost freezing temperatures at Yoyogi park to make my video. You may notice the orange-hatted preschoolers…
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Envisioned
I spent the weekend at a retreat hosted by my friends Jason, a Tokyo-based actor and singer, and Diana, a dancer and yoga teacher. In addition to more than 5 hours of yoga and movement workshops, we all created “envision boards” based on a 9 square feng shui style grid. The grid isn’t obvious in…
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Nice Day for a Walk
The weather was so beautiful today that once I left home, I could not stop walking. From my planned errand in Iidabashi, I decided to stroll through Kitanomaru Park,. When I ended up down by the Imperial East Gardens I walked through them, too. Then the Imperial Outer Gardens to Hibiya Park, where I called…
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