Category Archives: Connections
Meeting Up with My Old Friends
Thoughts, being rejuvenated, after a get-together with a group of old friends, reconnected, once more, translated… I’d, set up the treat slices for my old dog, Yellow, told him, “Okay now, mommy’s out!”, and he’d not done as he normally … Continue reading
That Sweetened Glass of Water
The kindness of a stranger, to this woman, and it’d, helped lifted up her spirits and made her day, translated… Back when I was younger, I was, unaware, that the connection between people, had the wide variety of “flavors” like … Continue reading
The Everlasting Nostalgia
The misinterpretation from the receiver, that’s, caused the friendship to not last, but thankfully, many years later, explanations were, found, and, they’d, become friends again, translated… Young Shunza was my neighbor from the elementary school years, my classmate, we’d, studied … Continue reading
Never Far from the Tastes of Home
Keeping the connections you’d made for a long time, it has, its, many benefits! Translated… As Mrs. Wang heard of my return from elsewhere, she’d, immediately, called me over, to get the loofa she’d planted. I’d watched this loofa from … Continue reading
The Tour Guide in Mumbai
The life and times, of, an ordinary man! Translated… This tour guide is sixty-nine years old currently. In 1946, because of war, his father escaped from his origin in Sandong to Mumbai, met an Indian girl, and two years later, … Continue reading
After I’d Quit “Working” as a Daughter-in-Law, My Husband Started Siding with Me
How this woman took the initiative to change, and her husband, followed her footsteps, and everything got better for them both, translated… She’d once thought, that being a good wife, a good mother, and a good daughter-in-law, was a guarantee … Continue reading
Keep Ourselves Connected with the Pointless Conversations
Bonding, between father and sons, translated… “Do you want me to bite my hand hard, to call my older brother back home for you?”, my youngest son asked. In the Ichibangai Street in Tokyo train station without wi-fi, the four … Continue reading