BY KAREN CARMELI Many times people tell me that they feel that people see them not as they are, and that it is very frustrating. How can we be sure that we present ourselves as we really are? When we think about how to present ourselves: what to say, what to do, and how to [...]
BY HEATHER SHIDA After our fun wedding in March I moved to my husband’s apartment in Oregon. He was done with school, I had no classes, but I did need to finish my thesis. But with the wonder that was email, I was able to do this from another state. My mentor happily shared comments [...]
BY KIRSTEN ADACHI There were a lot of great picnic days in April and May and here’s hoping there will be a few more this summer! The first rainy season I was here it rained almost every day for a month and then got hot. Subsequent rainy seasons have had more sporadic rain patterns with [...]
Love origami but not sure how to decode the complicated instructions found in books? Having trouble visualising just what a valley fold is as compared to a mountain fold? Thanks to Heather, an American woman who has been living in Japan for 14 years, origami can be entirely possible for all of us! She creates [...]
BY MARY BETH HORIAI Can the efforts of one person really make a difference in the energy crisis? When it comes to the energy crisis, aren’t we really at the mercy of the decisions of governments and the financial concerns of the energy conglomerates and big industries? Most citizens know that fossil fuel sources are [...]
BY HEATHER SHIDA My now-husband and I had returned from our month long stay in Japan over the summer. We both still had one more year of college before graduating. My husband actually finished a term early, but I had the full year to work on my thesis. We got back into our lives and [...]
BY JOANNE WONG This is the last in a four-part series about Joanne’s experiences being in TIP’s The Wizard of Oz. To start from the beginning, click here. After more than a year of planning and design and over three months of rehearsals and construction–not to mention over 600 costumes made–performance week was finally here, [...]
BY KIRSTEN ADACHI Have you ever read the Joy of Soup blog? It hasn’t been updated since 2007 but it has a fabulous collection of soup recipes, including the one below. I don’t usually post recipes the recipes that I don’t really change–just a link to them–but this blog isn’t being updated and it could [...]
(CONTRIBUTED) Romance. Religion. Racism. Corsets! Intimate Apparel is the story of Esther Mills, the daughter of slaves, who is a highly skilled lingerie seamstress in New York City in 1905. She lives in a boarding house and saves all of her money in a quilt in the hopes of one day opening a beauty parlour where [...]
