I've Been: Summer, 2018

green tea ice cream in Kyoto

Traveling:

• DC
• Bethesda
• Lennox, ma
• Nashua, NH
• Fairfield, CT
• San Francisco
• Osaka
• Tokyo
• Kyoto
• Hong Kong 

Seeing Theatre:

• Snow Child at Arena Stage
• Head over heels at the Hudson Theatre
• Theater J
• The Lifespan of a Fact on Broadway
• Messiah and Beautiful Garden at the Takarazuka theatre in Tokyo!

Watching Film and TV:

• Won’t You Be My Neighbor (i saw it on the plane and wept)
• Better Call Saul
• The Man in the High Castle
• Sisters on Netflix
• Black mirror
• A-typical
• The Five
• Shakespeare: Uncovered

Reading:

• The end of the affair by Graham Greene
• Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
• astrophysics for people in a hurry Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• Famous father girl by Jamie Bernstein
• Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
• The light of the world by Elizabeth Alexander
• The people’s tragedy Orlando Figes
• Emma by Jane Austen
• The butterfly effect by Jon Ronson
• The coming storm by Michael Lewis

Doing:

• Seeing national monuments
• African American history museum
• Reading on the National Mall
• Writing lots of postcards
• reflecting
• hosting friends 
• Singing on Seth Rudetsky
• enduring with varying levels of grace a huge period of inexplicable and illogical clinical depression (one I expect to rear its head about every 6 years, and here it was, right on schedule)
• Checking Japan off my bucket list
• Eating, Seeing, Tasting, Smelling, and Teaching in JAPAN
• Aunt-ing
• Nursing heartache after heartache
• Falling off a damn motorbike
• Eating so much watermelon
• Celebrating my big brother’s 50th birthday

Big Brother!