Today I heard that the UK stuff I collected should arrive around May 10th. This is actually great timing because there are thousands of volunteers heading up north over Golden Week, and a consistent comment I am hearing is that the survivors and organizations up there are worried about being forgotten. If we head up [...]

Lots of people will have heard or read me go on about my dear friend and fabulous photographer, David Stetson. Well I am so sad to say that he will be leaving Japan in the coming months. We had lunch today and decided that, as he will be closing his studio gallery in Yoyogi-koen, I [...]

I’m really not going to go on and on about my husband and I separating or anything but I just HAVE to say something about the lovely messages I’ve been receiving both publicly and privately now it’s all out there. I am amazed at how many people consider separating a brave thing to do and [...]

Ideas are forming in my mind for another “Japan mission” to the UK already, based on conversations with people here in Japan who have been regularly going up north and are forming relationships with various government agencies. As I listen to people tell me what they are in need of, I find myself thinking outside [...]