Author: Shinichi
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Back to School and Beginner’s Mind
It does feel like I’m having to start all over in this midpoint of my life. I remember 15 years ago, I was so over school that I never wanted to take classes again. I finished my MFA and it was a difficult, trying time in my life. I find…
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Unexpected Rant about Facebook
Originally posted on my Squarespace page. It feels like I haven’t posted here in years, though it might as well be. The last post was on June 27, 2019, and it was about getting back into writing practice. This is always been on the back of my mind and the…
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Through the Marine Layer
First Bike Ride of the Year Yesterday morning, I embarked on my first bike commute of the year. It was through what we in San Diego call the marine layer, that fog that rolls in over the coast and the city from the Pacific Ocean. Some parts of the ride…
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My Web Presence History
My first website was made sometime in 1997 on Geocities after a friend of mine created his own site on that platform. I started from a template that created a simple, but ugly website. It went this way for a few months until I bought a copy of Dreamweaver and…
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Reading: Griffin & Sabine Trilogy
Books: Griffin & Sabine, Sabine’s Notebook, The Golden Mean Author: Nick Bantock Publisher: Chronicle Books Genres: Fiction, epistolary fiction, visual fiction, art book, toybook What drew me into the Griffin & Sabine trilogy was the conceit of them being a series of artfully done postcards between two people corresponding across…
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Reading: The Phantom Tollbooth
Authors: Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (illustrator) Book: Phantom Tollbooth Publisher: Random House Genres: children’s fiction, fantasy, allegory, visual fiction It’s one thing to be exposed to this story as a child. It was in the form of a play done at my American elementary school in Japan when I was…
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Busted E String
I’ve had a goal to learn how to play the guitar for a while. Last summer, I bought a guitar, a wonderful left-handed Fender model. I got some self-teaching books, but I never made it past first string. I have also felt it would be a good idea to get…
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Reading in this New Year
It’s so easy to get caught up in this idea of reading as a writer that it becomes this rule, a dogma. Some writers, like Stephen King in his famous book on writing drives home this point where it’s easy to internalize in this way. I have to admit it’s…