I don’t write very much in summer anymore. Each June, I realize that the only way I was ever able to be productive was because somebody else was watching my kids. This summer, I had the kids in summer camp for about 3 hours a day, time I’d use to hit the gym and run...| Otaku Journalist
Beginning with the COVID-19 pandemic, I began recording a list of books I read each year to mark the passage of time and remind myself that I was still making progress in my life. Now that it’s May, my tally of books for this year so far is… 56. That’s over 10 books a month!...| Otaku Journalist
Over the past week or so, I’ve been quietly restoring Otaku Journalist. Sometime in the past five years of security updates and auto-maintenance, the blog’s layout got really messed up and I didn’t…| Otaku Journalist
When the Uber driver arrived at the worst Airbnb I’ve ever stayed in, he told me to double-check that I had the right address. On a sunny street in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco studded with picturesque townhomes,...| Otaku Journalist
It was 2013 and I’d just arrived at the largest suburban house I’d ever been inside. I was at a stranger’s place for a two-day writing workshop, and I paid $500 for the privilege. The house belonged to one of...| Otaku Journalist
