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Kokubunji, 2023.01.25

The Boy has a semi-portable basketball net that sits in our driveway. They call it a "basketgoal" in Japan. Anyway, the wind was strong enough to shift the thing yesterday. I shifted it back this morning and as I did so I heard ice crashing in the usually-water-filled base. Brr!

Tokyo winters are a bit like Halifax winters in one regard: the humidity makes you feel the cold more. There are differences, however: by late March there are strawberries in the fields in the city where we live.

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Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

—Denis Leary