“Good evening” an older Japanese man said to me in English as he passed, entering the coffee shop I was sitting in front of. I looked up from my computer where I was doing some work and replied, ‘good evening.’ My eyes once again focusing on the screen in front of me I secretly hoped [...]
You know I really wonder how much more broken my back can get with a new ‘last straw’ being added every day. I marvel at the lack of communication, interaction, and willingness to volunteer what might be valuable information. Most of all I wonder how I have endured through it all. I started my job [...]
It was about two o’clock on Monday, my Chinese interns last day at our office, and things were moving along nicely. Two weeks had passed during which I had passed on as much knowledge and skill that could be absorbed (and understood) giving that she had absolutely no business background and was just starting grad [...]
What do you do when you look in the mirror and don’t like what you see, when the person looking back at you is a complete stranger. That moment of realization and bewilderment feels like a bucket of ice cold water being dumped over your head on a hot summer day. Japan’s sweet sirens song [...]