Kevin Kato's Blog – April 2011 Archive (5)

Flights of Fancy

My wife’s wallet is fat with stamp cards. Card for the gas station, card for the camera store, card for a curry shop I don’t think she’s ever even been to. She doesn’t even like curry. I myself don’t have the organizational skills to keep track of a stack of store cards, even if I did possess the inclination to hold onto them or the capacity to remember to use them. My wife hands me a supermarket card as I am heading out the door of the apartment, and by the time I’m walking through the… Continue

Added by Kevin Kato on April 25, 2011 at 10:50pm — No Comments

The Morning After - tohoku earthquake part three

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Added by Kevin Kato on April 15, 2011 at 9:10am — 2 Comments

Calm Amid Calamity - tohoku earthquake part two

I walked into the dark front hall of the Shimizu Learning Center. A man in a blue windbreaker approached, moving with an efficiency that told me he was at work though in what capacity I had no idea. What was the situation here, or anywhere else? What had really happened, and what needed to be done? I hadn't seen any damage. A distant siren bled through the hum of a single generator; outside the glass doors a circle of…

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Added by Kevin Kato on April 4, 2011 at 3:52pm — No Comments

Sarah The Brave

I liken my mind to a tornado: swirling like the dickens and indiscriminate in direction, followed by an eerie silence and scattered debris. It was two weeks ago I came across the fodder for this post – an in-flight magazine article by fellow writer (fellow meaning she writes for magazines and I would like to write for magazines) Sarah Twain (not her real surname). Since then my head has been spinning with images I've been itching to get down on paper before they lose whatever small measure of… Continue

Added by Kevin Kato on April 1, 2011 at 8:50pm — No Comments

Where Fear Lies - tohoku earthquake part one

(Note: My blog posts are usually much more light-hearted; recent events in my backyard have temporarily changed that. Please keep the people of Japan - my adoptive neighbors - in your thoughts. Thank you.)

With a cheap driver I worked the tiny screw on the back of my son's toy microwave oven. He likes to…

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Added by Kevin Kato on April 1, 2011 at 7:28pm — No Comments