

A Metaphor
After several months in Tokyo, my wife Linda had been invited to give a series of lectures on intercultural communication in Doshisha...
D.T.
Feb 18, 2019


Mittelstand
Aitutaki. Aitutaki Lagoon. Aitutaki Lagoon Resort. Aitutaki Lagoon Resort Grotto. Aitutaki Lagoon Resort Island, part of the Cook...
D.T.
Jun 2, 2018


Men in passing: in three short acts
Act one: A street encounter with manpower My small apartment on the outskirts of Tokyo was Spartan in its furnishing. All there was, when...
G.A.
Sep 24, 2017


A taste of Zoroastrian wine
The young man from the reception desk came and sat next to me, quietly and with no apparent purpose. “Would you like to have something to...
A.G.
Jul 13, 2017


A Psychic Encounter
“I see a health problem around your abdomen, you have tried to treat it naturopathically, but it will not work. You will have to take a...
A.G.
Apr 30, 2017


The Shopper
One of the most wonderful aspects of living overseas was the opportunities Chad and I had for vacation travel. And the best of all...
NJ.B.
Apr 8, 2017


Baxter’s World
In the early 1970s, in order to further my studies in Art History, I went to a small university in a small town in Nova Scotia, on the...
D.T.
Mar 6, 2017


Following a Ferrari Up the Matterhorn
During the summer I turned 50, I stood with my husband, Gene, and our thirteen-year-old daughter, Karin, in front of the Bergfűhrerbűreau...
K.B.V
Jan 24, 2017


Opposite Encounters
Four years ago. Thursday morning. I step onto the plane with mixed feelings. I am glad that I will see him again, I have missed him a...
C.K.
Nov 25, 2016


The Deer Musk
Adam was, and I quote him, “the only son and child of a Jewish mother” who happened to be a psychoanalyst with a PhD and recently...
A.P.
Nov 15, 2016




















