http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/ en_US Copyright 2010 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:27:52 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.31-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss abandoned blogs are not all the same, you know. some are like pieces of lovely driftwood; floating into and out of the life of the writer with peaceful ease. others are like an old pair of socks, pushed to the... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2010/01/where_ive_been_2.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2010/01/where_ive_been_2.html Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:27:52 -0800 "Perhaps I'm neither fish nor fowl because the world now accommodates flying minnows." -me, in a recently-unearthed journal from years ago... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2009/09/fish_or_fowl.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2009/09/fish_or_fowl.html Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:05:12 -0800 there's been a great void of silence here at HadashiWorld, more than ever before. i'm not giving up though; it's just that due to some unforeseen life events, including a pregnancy loss, i have done most of my blogging elsewhere... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2009/08/hiatus.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2009/08/hiatus.html Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:14:12 -0800 i've written here before about interracial relationships and racial identity, but just in a few short years much has changed. there are now a million more Americans identifying as mixed-raced than only 8 years ago, in 2000 , when the... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2009/02/the_goldening_o.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2009/02/the_goldening_o.html Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:28:52 -0800 it has not been an easy year. certainly there were many good things about it, and much to be grateful for, but especially due to the events of the last month (in which i lost three people who were extremely... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/12/new_years_litan.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/12/new_years_litan.html Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:53:28 -0800 this morning, Yu-Ying Eva Lee Chan(g), known to her grandchildren as "Bobo" -- the English transliteration of a Chinese word for "grandmother" -- quietly died. to everyone's surprise, most of all her own, she'd made it to 99 years... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/11/goodbye_bobo.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/11/goodbye_bobo.html Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:56:07 -0800 yesterday T.T. and i celebrated our wedding anniversary. it was a little rushed -- i've been working pretty steadily on another show, so after wrapping, i rushed home and did my Hadashi's Lightning Makeover, in which i go from being... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/09/grown-up_kid.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/09/grown-up_kid.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:01:27 -0800 last night, over a lovely meal that Ms. Jen made (involving an heirloom tomato, dates and manchego, and an '06 Zinfandel), we discussed Michael Pollan's excellent book The Omnivore's Dilemma. this morning, i saw this meme on Maki's excellent blog,... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/08/the_omnivores_h.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/08/the_omnivores_h.html Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:45:04 -0800 since the show i am currently working on is an NBC Universal property, we shoot quite a bit on the Universal Studios backlot. now, if you're a normal human, you probably would love being there -- you get to see... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/08/maybe_i_need_gp_1.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/08/maybe_i_need_gp_1.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:25:08 -0800 some of you may remember that about about a year ago, T.T. had to undergo neural reconstructive surgery to repair the damage from a botched outpatient procedure in which a major nerve was severed by a surgeon we'll call Dr.... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/07/connection.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/07/connection.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:37:38 -0800 i didn't realise quite how much i was invested in the presidential race until tonight, when T.T. and i were having a nice boba milk tea and the tv monitor in the coffee shop suddenly started flashing the words... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/06/relieved.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/06/relieved.html Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:48:58 -0800 as some of you may know, we once again ditched the country -- and this time we went to Turkey. why? because, well, we could. since we're still working on the kids thing, we don't have a mortgage, and... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/05/of_baths_baklav.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/05/of_baths_baklav.html Tue, 27 May 2008 17:06:56 -0800 he was driving home from work, so they say, when he fell asleep at the wheel ten blocks from his house. when his car hit the tree, he was instantly killed. i'd known him for almost ten years; we'd... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/04/a_hui_hou.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/04/a_hui_hou.html Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:15:24 -0800 when T.T. & i got married, thus not only adding our lives to one another, but also our worldly goods, we tried to pare down all the Stuff we'd accumulated. we thought we'd done a pretty good job of it,... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/03/reduce_reuse_re.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/03/reduce_reuse_re.html Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:43:21 -0800 i've written before about how i hate the idea of New Year's resolutions, but i can't deny that a new year rolling around does motivate one to think about changes, growth, and goals. i realise this may sound like semantics... http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/02/new_years_goals.html http://www.blackphoebe.com/hadashi/archives/2008/02/new_years_goals.html Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:31:36 -0800