Notes from the 'Nog

    Thank you to Writers in Kyoto for publishing my piece on walking one of the Tōkaidō's nicer sections...   https://writersinkyoto.com...

    I am lucky to be working with an excellent editor at The Japan Times, but the usual spacial limitations of print often require a piece t...

   

    Getting a jump start on the heat.  People on the way to work, popping into Mishima Taisha.  I wander the cool of the grounds, passing a ...

    Has it really been six years since I left off this walk in Hakone?  The weather is a far cry from what it had been on that  December da...

    ...Marrakesh and Jemaa el-Fnaa:  cobras, monkeys, drums, fruit stands with plastic food, minaret scaffolding with three gargoyles,  Tibe...

  I've mentioned before how my friend Daniel and I had missed a great deal of the Hongudō during our walk in 2019 , due to most signage ...