Third Culture Kid(s)

Rest in peace, Molly. We sure will miss you.

I wish I could write nicely organized, interesting weblog posts.
But I can’t. Or won’t. Same difference in this case.
If you’ve been following me around the internet, you know that I’ve been having bouts of depression. Not kill-myself-and-my-family depression, just this lingering malaise that makes it hard to do all but what’s absolutely […]

This constitutes excitement in our little household.
Jack, a music-loving puppet who entertains his pals at a rocking clubhouse, gets a visit from “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart on the Feb. 2 episode that also features the debut of a video collaboration between the Flaming Lips’ Steven Drozd and former “Blues Clues” host Steve Burns).
Stewart […]

He’s apparently doing a special episode of “Jack’s Big Music Show” next Friday at noon. Not only that, but it also (if I’m not mistaken) marks the return of Steve Burns (”Blue’s Clues”) to children’s television, if only for one music video. If you have both a toddler AND Noggin, mark your calendar!!!

My dad was kvetching over lunch about how the Democrats weren’t even allowing Dubya to participate in some of their pet programs - that it’s basically a case of damned-if-he-does-damned-if-he-doesn’t that wasn’t fair to the President.
While I’ve just about had it up to here [which would be a point roughly corresponding to the tops of […]

Gary Kamiya has a thoughtful essay on Barack Obama and the race question up on Salon.com that I wanted to pass around as well.
M’s often talked about not having time for the established Nikkei (Japanese-American) community, because he refuses to be defined by their political agendas. In his particular case, it may or may […]

All I can say is, Uncommon Misconception says it so much more eloquently than I ever could.

Reading
Or, more accurately, not reading. One of my biggest stumbling blocks on the way to the PhD is my absolute terror of reading stuff in my field. It’s not that I’m afraid I won’t understand it - that’s a terror for the first year of grad school - and it’s not that I’m […]

Our second anniversary was yesterday - a fact recognized by no one, least of all M. and me (we’ve both been under the assumption that it’s actually this Friday, since that’s the anniversary of the day we met. It took my sister looking up the date on our wedding announcement to settle the question). […]

The Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Japan-America Society, and even the Embassy have been pretty active this last year sponsoring events for the Japanese/Nikkei community. Aside from the obon matsuri that Ekoji Temple held in July, there was an Autumn matsuri and today there was a New Year matsuri.
If I have one complaint, it’s just […]