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This is the master of our house, Blaze, a few years back. He’s 15 now so there’s a little less scaling fences and hunting pigeons and...
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haru
Apr 1, 20221 min read
Children and Fools Tell the Truth
Who do you consult if you want to know the truth? According to an old proverb, it’s children and fools, although the point of the saying,...
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haru
Mar 25, 20222 min read
A Haiku for Mothers and Kids This UK Mothering Sunday
A picture of my mom in her 70s, this is a woman known for: ditching US occupied Japan after WWII for a scholarship in the enemy country;...
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haru
Mar 18, 20222 min read
Birthday Paradox and #BuildBackHappier 2022
I celebrated my birthday today at lunch with a friend’s lovely daughter because we have the same birthdate. Apparently there’s a thing...
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haru
Mar 11, 20222 min read
Chandeliers, Nuclear Meltdown and Downstairs Baaba
Here’s a picture of my paternal Baaba featured as the 1930s pinup girl in Tanaka Atsuko’s book on kimono beauties (2006).[1] I thought...
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haru
Mar 4, 20222 min read
Busting out Giant Red Panda Moves on #InternationalWomen’sDay
Growing up in my mother’s bubble, I didn’t know that Tomboy was a pejorative word. I didn’t know about sexism or misogyny and truly...
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haru
Feb 25, 20222 min read
Parallel Universe in a Bowl of Chili
I first met my husband over a bowl of chili from Booeymonger in Washington, DC. As a Frenchman in the US, he’d become a serious fan of...
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haru
Feb 18, 20223 min read
Fifty Shades of Rain (T)
Storm Eunice has put London and many other cities in the UK on high weather alert today. Advised to stay at home to avoid all...
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haru
Feb 11, 20222 min read
Ordinary Courage (T)
This pre-St. Valentine’s Sunday, I’m venturing out to see Glaswegian actor James McAvoy as Cyrano de Bergerac at the Harold Pinter...
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haru
Feb 4, 20221 min read
Demons Out! Fortune In!
We did our mamemaki soybean throwing to shoo away the demons and welcome fortune into our London home on Thursday for Setsubun, the...
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haru
Jan 28, 20222 min read
The Age of Nations is Past and #InternationalCustomsDay (T)
Among horrible recurrent nightmares, a really bad one I have takes place at Customs. Sometimes I have the wrong passport or there’s a new...
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haru
Jan 21, 20225 min read
Breaking Up and Haggis (T)
In 2003, I was bunged up in a hospital bed with a ventilator in my throat. Two surgeries and a coma later, I’d find out that a scooter...
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haru
Jan 14, 20222 min read
For All the Best Little Scrubs on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
On his way to receiving his Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, Dr King stopped in London. At St. Paul’s Cathedral, he gave a sermon, adding to...
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haru
Jan 7, 20221 min read
@threelittlepigs.space Doable New Year’s Resolution: Sit less
The hardest part of the winter holidays is getting rebooted in the first week of January. I found out that Monday the 11th of January is...
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haru
Dec 31, 20211 min read
Happy New Year threelittlepig readers!
I can hardly believe I’m in the last season of my first year writing for threelittlepigs.space. Thank you, everyone, for taking the time...
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haru
Dec 24, 20212 min read
It’s the Season of Pikachu Supercharge!
In London this season, there’s a strange air of pandemic defiance. Ah, we’ve been here before and we feel like we should know how to...
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haru
Dec 17, 20212 min read
Pilots like Amira (T)
In my early life, I traveled the world following my father’s career. The uproots occurred in three-year cycles except for high school...
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haru
Dec 10, 20212 min read
What Was The First Gift You Ever Gave Someone? (T)
What Was Your First Gift? (T) In December of 1965, I did my very first Christmas shopping. I was only four but was allowed to go to...
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haru
Dec 3, 20212 min read
#NinjaDay Crime Prevention (T)
Back in the day, while my French brother-in-law drew page after page of soldiers in army combat, my older brother pitter-pattered upon...
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haru
Nov 25, 20212 min read
Turkey, The Seven-Faced Bird (T)
Poor Turkey, not just because so many of them end up on the table for Thanksgiving and Christmas but because the old turkey has been...
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