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Blog Blast from the Past: A Special Christmas Message from the 2007 Amana Holiday House Walk
Freaky-deaky holiday memories from good old Amana.
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5 Best Saxophone Solos of 1988
From The Beach Boys to Billy Ocean, these are the quintessential saxophone solos released in 1988.
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Remember 3.11
Today is the three year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Tohoku – the northern area of Japan. Outside of Japan, the disaster is fairly well forgotten, except for the periodic report on the nuclear power plants. Today’s update: they’re still down and nobody knows if they are safe or will be operational.…
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Climbing Mitake-san
We have a three-day holiday weekend coming up so I asked Lisa what she wanted to do. “No hiking,” she said. We have done an inordinate amount of hiking in Japan this past summer, not all of it pleasant. We got stuck in a thunderstorm in Okutama. We got stuck in the blazing heat in…
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Traveling home: a culinary experience
I was in the Minneapolis airport and I had just spent 30 minutes looking for an Arby’s. The beef and cheddar combo was the last item on my mental checklist of food I wanted to eat before returning to Tokyo. From June 27-July 10 I had returned to the U.S., mostly to visit family in…
a Nick in Time 