OnMyMind

What would be your first thought if you saw a baby Inoshishi (wild boar) in your backyard?

“Line up!”….”There!”….”Whooo-whoo! Shoo shoo poh poh, shoo shoo poh poh, kajung kajung, kajung kajung, shoo shoo poh poh, shoo shoo poh poh …” This is how we walked home from dinner the other night in Tokyo, being led by a two-and-a-half year old “engineer” through the back streets of Kamata. We had […]

Home alone this evening, sufferingly quiet. Somehow the house seems frozen in time in the absence of the children. I have been home for only two hours now, but it seem like days, without my son scrambling for my lap, hijacking the keyboard, it seems that time has opened up to me and […]

A while back we bought this tiny little picture that was painted in water color in the Japanese brush style. It is a picture of a mole digging away under the earth, and the accompanying phrase was Ganbaru Ganbaru, which is translated in many ways to English. In this context it kind […]

I spent a good portion of the mornig wrestling with the trackback function of MoveableType. Central to the issue was whether or not people outside of the MT universe could make use of this nifty function. It seems that Web over at Webslog has found a possible solution to all of you non-MT […]

The first weekend of November is always the Sazanka Matsuri, Camellia Festival, here in Kanagi. It is an excuse for people to get out and get together in the autumn, and is usually a pretty good day. This year we had fabulous weather, and we made a quick stop at the festival. […]

Ok, so now I think that the changes that I made to the layout of this site will actually hold. I am not sure why, but the MovableType software seemed to not like my new style sheet, perhaps it thought better of the colors, and just overwrote it with the vanilla code again. […]