mediatinker

Late last year, Bunkyo-ku completely changed the composition of the Burnables list. We are now advised to put our plastics, rubber, styrofoam and vinyl items in with our food scraps and paper rubbi...

Me. West Hazleton High School, 1984.
Yesterday evening, I unearthed my high school yearbook and paged through it. I hadn't looked at it in at least a decade and I was surprised by a flood of memor...

Continuing the tradition of summarising the year in 25 words, exactly
I made dresses, meals, 100 necklaces, friends. Grew food. Witnessed a birth! I am greying, wrinkling and fading, but I started ...

I have a roof over my head, a closet full of clothes, cupboards of dishes and pots, furniture to sit and sleep on. I have books to read, music to listen to, a computer to help me communicate. There...

This year's tree was made of ten meters of lingerie nylon, a string of LED lights, and some foil streamers from the 100 yen store.
We had a lovely Christmas dinner and opened many presents. I have...

One of my favorite myths involves the change of seasons and pomegranate seeds. The Greek goddess Persephone was tricked into eating some pomegranate seeds in the underworld which forced her to retu...

There was plenty of dough so I made two houses. Here is the one that Tod & I decorated on the day I baked:
We had some friends over to decorate the other house last night. It is interesting that th...

In the holiday spirit more than usual, I've decided to make a gingerbread house. Here's what it looks like in my kitchen today:
Pre-prefab. These templates will form roof, front, back and sides.
In...

This morning for breakfast Tod sat a mikan on my desk. I love fresh mandarin oranges and they are always a treat, even when they are in season and I eat them every day.
But this morning's mikan was...