One of my self-defining memories has to do with the way I look. I was about ten or eleven, leaning over a one-page newspaper advertisement. The ad was an open call to an annual nationwide beauty pageant in Japan for girls under, I think, sixteen years old. I studied the many small photos of the […]
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I love dark chocolates. Cacao, apparently, also boosts your metabolism. So, I eat it every morning, as a spoonful of cacao powder in my yogurt, and as two pieces of 88% dark chocolate squares. I got the 88% chocolate squares from someone that thought they tasted awful. She’d also bought it for the health benefits
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I’ve always loved writing. I started my first daily journal as a third grader, and didn’t skip a day for a year – I remember because my third-grade teacher awarded me a medal in front of my class for it. I started writing poems as a senior in high school and kept it up through
My favorite clarinetist, Maiko Sasaki and I have been recording an album: “100 Years: Early Beethoven and Late Brahms, Op. 2-1 (1795) vs. Op. 120 (1894)” at Wire Road Studio in Houston, TX and recording engineer, Andy Bradly. http://www.wireroadstudios.com/ Playing for an audience, and playing to be recorded are very, very different. With an audience to