Where is my Brother?

Today of all days I want to sit down and count my blessings.  I need to remind myself that I am  lucky to be living in such comfort and safety. I have so much to be thankful for.  I couldn’t even begin to list what overflows from my cup.  From health, to family, to love, [...]

this family here in Nagasaki would like to wish a very happy birthday to our nephew/cousin. For security reasons, we will call him  J.  My kids love their cousin to death.  They all want to hang out with him and hang all over him the whole time he is there and they are totally  wrecked [...]

I would like to dedicate today’s post to a special friend who is celebrating a birthday. She and I became acquainted through a forum on the web and spent a hot summer week together with our 7 kids. She is fabulous.  We share so much on the phone…. she grew up in the U.K. and [...]

more and more fish.  finished some off and sent them away. I think I might start a flickr group so that people can register their fish.  You know, my goal is to have some hanging on every continent.  There are only 7 of them, how hard can it be!!!  Then some in every country!!!!
 
Like “Where’s Wally?, it [...]

illustrated

I’m on the sea! I’m on the sea!
I am where I would ever be;
With the blue above and the blue below,
and silence wheresoe’er I go.

-from The Sea
by Barry Cornwall

your hard drive dies and you didn’t back it up…
what if reality is that your link to the world is temporarily broken and you are left to local friends and phone calls….
what if we lived in a world where people could marry any one that they loved…regardless of gender, color, religious beliefs or status…
what if the choosing [...]