A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for Friday, October 6, 2006

All over the place, I see people who are closing up shop, thinking of closing up shop, or complaining of either or both of those groups of people. They say that blogit is dying. Well, my friends, I am here to tell you that blogit is not dead or dying! All over the place, I see new writers, new talent. More and more people are joining as we speak. And some of these people are really great writers and have some really interesting things to say. I don't know if you're just reading the same people... Sign in to see full entry.

My roommate's little brother (little? He's 6'1!) is here for the weekend. He's a freshman at Penn. Going along with what I posted this morning, I've known N since he was three years old, at the Nursery Kindergarten. These kids grow up so fast! Growing up my family spent summers in Pittsburgh. Both my parents grew up there, and we still have family living there. At the time all three of my living grandparents were in Pittsburgh (my maternal grandmother has since moved to Philadelphia and she is... Sign in to see full entry.

I was born in Tokyo, Japan, and spent the first ten years of my life in Asia. My dad was working for Accenture and he got moved around a lot. When I was about six months old, we moved to Singapore, where my sister was born in 1986. At the age of five, we moved back to Tokyo, where my sister and I went to the American School in Japan--Nursury Kindergarten. After kindergarten, I moved on to the "big kids" campus at Chofu, which is a suburb of the city. I remember the bus ride as being extremely... Sign in to see full entry.