
My dear friend Carol said one way to heal a broken heart is to write about it. So….. here goes. Our best, most wonderful cat Toto (short for Totoro) was killed last night accidentally in a car accident at the base of our driveway. She was just two years old and truly an exceptional…

Our last day in Tokyo and Yumiko and Sonia visited the Meiji Shrine. We will be back home on Tuesday. See you then!!

We came back to Tokyo yesterday and I couldn’t help myself. I had to go back to the Aoyama Cemetery near our apartment where I spent many early morning hours a few years ago. I wanted to see if the stray cats were still there. And to my total delight, there they were. All…

Well, there was lots of calm before the storm. We woke up early, had breakfast and then took the little ferry from our hotel to the main land. We slogged through the rain and got on the train and made it back to Tokyo in five hours without seeing hide nor hair of the…

Well, here is the latest. I am writing from the lobby computer in our little hot Spring Hotel located on the tip of the Kii Peninsula near Osaka. We stayed in a wonderful hotel in Kyoto, except in our haste to get to the next train I left my lap top in our guest…