Finding little Texas in Tokyo [#10]
Konichiwa from Tokyo!
Besides making discoveries like the spaghetti sandwich, I am spending a busy week back on the job visiting a Texas-themed honky tonk bar, Japanese preschool and some Japanese North Koreans. Good times. Stories to come.
What I Read
Hey interviewers, let’s talk about professional women’s brains, not their babies. The simple hack for better sleep. A genius flowchart to shut down mansplainers. The most important things to teach kids are grit and empathy. (Probably not traits of the Chinese rich kids, who are the most annoying of the rich kids.) Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk, they have family money. And if you want to spend your family money, a lab in South Korea clones dogs for $100,000. Selfies have been deadlier than shark attacks this year. The Onion reflects my general hopelessness gun control in the U.S. by simply reusing this same headline and story every time there’s a mass shooting, which is about once a week.
What I Wrote
My output has been largely personal, even though I’m back at work: A short happy birthday to the daughter who first made me a momma. A long goodbye to my beloved beagle, who was with me for nearly 17 years. And some answers about global and cross cultural motherhood, for a new blog called Mamalane. My favorite part here is that they kept in my quoting Bill Murray, who is one of my heroes.
New Combo Alert
“It makes perfect sense. Alcohol and Taco Bell!” (Those Texans among us know that the far superior fast food taco + booze combo is Taco Cabana.)
Back to work,
Elise