We forgot to mention...

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 [...]

That first step...

“Look at that store” my girlfriend said stopping and pointing to a shop to my right, “isn’t it interesting?”  My head turned following her finger to reveal a rather typical Japanese storefront set slightly back into the block.  A dark green overhang shaded the door and a few wooden signs with writing carved in them [...]

Take a walk down a road and....

Do you ever get that urge to stand up, get out of your house and follow a road you’ve never been down before, that urge to see something new, feel something different and do something for the first time?  I don’t know about you but I get that urge quite a bit.  I believe that [...]

Excuse me. What did you say?

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 [...]