Covid-19 in the Winter
Almost one year ago, when the concerns and restrictions began around Covid -19, I remember saying, "Thankfully this is happening in the...
Blood Pressure Mystery
I have little to no history of hypertension. Yet I have been monitoring my blood pressure over the past couple of weeks and it is on the...
First bike ride of 2020
As is our annual tradition, my riding buddy and I got out on our bikes for a New Years Day ride around UBC and the surrounding area. The...
Christmas Eve 2019
I started off the day with my usual morning walk in the early winter morning darkness and patiently awaited some sign of sunrise in the...
Recycling soap
This year I have been collecting small scraps of bar soap from our showers and recycling them into new bars. No, the financial situation...
No coffee. No dairy.
For months I have been struggled to determine what is causing issues with my digestive system. Don't worry... I won't go into details. It...
Birth congratulations... almost sixty years ago
This weekend I was going through some boxes of photos and paper left to me after my mother died several years ago. I found this telegraph...
26th Anniversary
Tonight Yoshiko and I followed our tradition of celebrating the anniversary of the day we met (or were first introduced) at Bice...
Home to Tokyo and Home to Vancouver
This week I made a quick trip back "home" to Tokyo. I call it a home because I spent 23 years in Japan, met my wife Yoshiko there and had...
Table Tennis at UBC
The students in my program at UBC (HATCH, the accelerator portion of the entrepreneurial program, e@UBC) held a table tennis tournament...
