Month: December 2010

Copyright © 2002, Glenn Story Monday, August 12, 1985, 7:50 pm: I’m standing in front of the Tokyo American Club waiting for a ride. This is the beginning of a week-long trip to the island called Miyake Jima. The purpose of the trip is to go scuba diving. A truck from the dive shop that… Continue reading Dive Trip in Japan

Copyright (c) 2002, Glenn Story Saturday, September 28, 1985:  Kamakura I  am  writing  this from my room in  the  Kaihinso  Ryokon.   We arrived here yesterday from Tokyo.  This is the start of a month- long  journey  that  will eventually take us back to  the  United States after living here in Japan for almost two years.… Continue reading Traveling in Japan and Micronesia

Copyright © 2002, Glenn Story I need to get some new shoes.  Both of my shoes have holes in the soles.  It’s not that I can’t afford them; I just can’t find the kind I like any more. Today is my birthday.  I didn’t realize it until half way through breakfast.  It was depressing.  Another… Continue reading Old Shoes

Back in the late 1970’s I joined an organization called “The Hunger Project.” Their stated goal was the elimination of hunger by the end of the century. Well, the century has turned, and “hunger and malnutrition are back”. Indeed, have they ever left? Your words made me wonder if the Hunger Project was still around.… Continue reading On Hunger, Peace, and Dreams Lost

Yesterday was election day.  Today is the day after and I feel like I have a political hangover. I went to vote in the afternoon.  The polling place was in a local church.  Should we pray or should we vote? My wife went with me.  She went to the first person who crossed her name… Continue reading Election Day

What is it about music anyway? I often wonder about that. It seems that every culture has some form of music, some primitive, some very developed. Moreover, every culture uses music for important occasions like weddings and funerals. Why? And why does music have the ability to move us to deep emotion? It is just… Continue reading Music

Copyright © 2003, Glenn Story This past Sunday was Easter.  This is the first year my kids didn’t get some Cadbury eggs.  Chalk it up to a bad economy and the fact that they’re growing up.  Still, it is the end of an era. In case you don’t know, Cadbury eggs are a chocolate covered… Continue reading Cadbury Eggs and Capitalism

Copyright © 2003, Glenn Story Piano Lessons Japanese Musi Shakuhachi Nutcracker Piano Lessons When I was three years old my mother had a friend who was a piano teacher. We would go to visit her on occasion and I would sit at the piano and “bang” on it–playing random notes and pretending I was really… Continue reading Me and Music

Greenmeadow is the neighborhood I live in.  I wrote this article about the history of Greenmeadow for the original Greenmeadow web site.

this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of `vapours. — Shakespeare, Hamlet