and it was so unfair of the phone, that it failed to connect us on the last night of the cherry blossoms, for reasons neither of us can explain -- when we could have drank to another year of my life, as the wind plucked out the straggling petals; the product of a year's anticipation ( Read more... )

This year, the Tokyo government has a strange policy. In light of the mass destruction up north, and the hundreds of thousands of people who - one month later - still do not have a home, "hanami" has been canceled ( Read more... )

It's been three weeks since I made my decision to break up with my ex-boyfriend, and immediately after that, my sister was here for two weeks, and now that she's gone, I can feel it directly in my chest: I'm SO ready to be back on the dating market ( Read more... )