These days it feels like Halloween stretches out for an entire month. Between pumpkin patches, Trunk or Treat, and the neighborhood Halloween parade, I’ve spent the last four weeks escorting my kid…| Otaku Journalist
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