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WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 7, 2001
It ain't easy being green: Irish or just full of blarney?
Each time I grin into the mirror to find a hunk of seaweed wrapped around my teeth, I am reminded of my family background.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Feb 21, 2001
The other little woman
"Tom-san," she called.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Feb 7, 2001
She can't find her way, but she found me
My wife looks normal, both at a distance and up close -- though, like with most people, if you draw too close, all you can see is a blur.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jan 17, 2001
Prospective grooms: get your head X-rayed
I know several people who claim they should have had their head X-rayed before ever stumbling into an international marriage. It's a statement I can never make.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jan 3, 2001
Kicking up a stink about smelling as natural as a skunk
While beauty traditionally belongs to the beholder's eye, correct hygiene might be better ascribed to his or her nose.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Dec 20, 2000
Jingle bills and other ghosts of Christmas past and present
There is a hereditary disease that stalks each member of my family. Even now I can feel it ticking maliciously through my bones, fully aware there is nothing I can do to stop it. Sooner or later it is going to strike.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Dec 6, 2000
Expats all losers, choosers or abusers?
Wetting my whistle on a humid afternoon inside a Tokyo establishment for the soberly impaired, I listened to the following affirmation by a foreign longtime friend.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 29, 2000
Caring more and judging less: fighting AIDS with compassion
"What you need is a hooker!"
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 15, 2000
Developing a finer sense of pace: the evolution of a party animal
When I was younger, I used to be a party animal.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 1, 2000
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who has changed most of all?
When I look in the mirror each morning, I pretty much see what I expect . . .
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 18, 2000
Rootless, wandering nomads on the shifting sands of time
Of all the things I have given my children (bicycles, braces and bald chromosomes) and of all the things I would like to give them (resilience, compassion and an early introduction to Rogaine) nothing seems farther beyond my meager means than the one gift I care to bestow the most:
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Oct 4, 2000
We must interrupt our bowling for a thrilling Olympic moment
Equality of the sexes I generally accept as a fundamental truth -- as certain as sunrise in the east, the rhythm of the tides and bubbles in the o-furo.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 20, 2000
Waiting and hoping in vain for the end of a Giant headache
When in love, one learns to put up with your partner's flaws, no matter how distasteful.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 6, 2000
Love's more than just the money, honey
Back in the halcyon days of my young adulthood, when I used to sigh feverishly into my fiancee's walnut eyes, you can rest assured I spied romance, hope and her contact lenses, but never -- never! -- a pair of yen stickers.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 30, 2000
Proposal primer: winning over the in-laws
I never truly asked for my wife's hand in marriage, primarily because I was interested more in the whole than individual parts.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 16, 2000
Taking a seat in the no-joking section
Smoke, as they say, gets in your eyes. Not to mention your clothes, hair, nose, lungs, taste buds, teeth, gums and (if you are a smoker) your pocketbook.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 2, 2000
'Grampa' walks among us
In most head counts my international family totals five: my wife and two sons, plus my mother-in-law and then yours truly. This reckoning, however, fails to include my father-in-law, who at times will visit for days on end.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jul 19, 2000
Honeymoon journey a sore memory
Summer glows with sunshine, and so do my memories.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jul 5, 2000
Mind reading, or am I just predictable?
It is often said that long-time married couples grow so close they can actually read each other's minds, but either that's hooey or my wife and I are out of synch, ESP-wise.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jun 21, 2000
The dying truth
In our marriage, my Japanese wife and I have met and resolved oodles of cultural issues, but one fairly thorny matter remains . . . how to face that ultimate marital crisis: death.
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