happy father's day
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Tokyo, 2020.06.21
One of the first things you forget about when moving to a new country (or even one where you've lived before) is the holiday schedule. Happily, Hallmark exists (or existed, hard to know who's still in business these days) in Japan, so Father's Day is a thing here. I talked to "Opa" first by phone and then by the ubiquitous "Zoom". I didn't hear from my own kids, but that's how it goes when you move away from them. Besides, I'll have them cooped up here in the house for two weeks of quarantine soon enough.