Two of the myriad reasons I love Sara are that she 1) plays cribbage and 2) plays Scrabble. At cribbage, she usually wins — in fact I think she won the first six games we ever played together. At Scrabble, however, I have fared better. Take last night, for example, when I scored an all-time [...]

Safa’s softball team, which I coach now for the third year straight, won its first game of the year on Thursday. Excellent defense in the last two innings during which only 2 runs were given up (compared the the 9 given up in the first two innings) led to a 12-11 comeback victory. We are [...]

Today (yesterday Japan time) is “Goya no Hi” (Goya Day) in Okinawa, the most fabulous holiday in all of humankind. As explained before on Goyablog, “5″ can be pronounced “go” and eight can be pronounced “ya” in Japanese, thus 5-8 (May Eight) is Goya Day. To celebrate, I am presently wearing my brightly-colored and goya-bespangled [...]