That time I was a murder suspect
Before I came to Tokyo, the only time I had ever gone outside of the United States was to visit my friend Monica in Belize. It was an...
The day I left for Japan
My friend Ryosuke heard me talking many times about wanting to go to another country. I needed to see people from different perspectives...
Have I ever told you about my wife?
Today is entry #143 of my attempt to post a story and a picture every single day for one year. That number should be 145, but I missed a...
Fetish
I was chatting with Diana today about the pains of fetishism. Here I will define it as the sexual objectification of a person based on...
How it first crossed my mind to visit Japan
Freshman year…no wait…actually, it was my sophomore year because I had transferred from the local Community College. I sat at a table...
Chamonix
I just finished submitting some documents that I had been working on nonstop, day and night, for the past three days (and for weeks...
Smokin Fish
I met the man you see in the photograph in Okinawa. He was busking on the street. I don't exactly remember how I began talking to him but...
Slim Jims for sale
America! I don't know why, but while I was looking at this photograph, which I took in New York City, I suddenly remembered the slim Jim...
Ring
Tonight I saw full Halo around the moon. It was as if I were looking up from the bottom of a wine glass. It’s called a 22-degree Halo....
Soka Gakkai
People often ask me about how I ended up in Japan. My first exposure to Japanese culture was through a Buddhist organization called the...
