Japan Diary After a ride The closest thing to heaven, cycling, sex and writing. The 2nd closest thing, the feeling after a long bike ride. While the ride itself is…mahmudApril 19, 2020
Minnesota Musings FLOW Today is like every other day these days. They all flow one into the other. Doesn’t take long to get into the groove. I wonder…mahmudApril 17, 2020
Japan Diary Hell and High Having to stay in during a rainy day is one thing, being required to under the guise of self-quarantine is another. Combine the two and…mahmudApril 16, 2020
Minnesota Musings Careful What You Pray For (MAGA in the making) The other day I was having coffee with two friends at my favorite central Tokyo coffee shops. Being somewhat on opposite ends of the political…mahmudMarch 19, 2020
Japan Diary Walk your Own Path and Let People Talk I have a few guilty pleasures I don’t really write about much. One of them is to watch television shows that may seem on the…mahmudMarch 8, 2020
Japan Diary Corona Oddities from Japan I don't want to downplay the severity of what is going on worldwide. It is serious. How serious? Nobody knows. I wrote a piece titled…mahmudMarch 6, 2020
Minnesota Musings Fear Fear is funny. Yes I know, how can one say the word fear and funny in a sentence. I just did and because by making…mahmudMarch 2, 2020
Minnesota Musings Saying and doing Saying and doing are two very different things, yes they are. Of course they are and yet we all say something and do not really…mahmudFebruary 26, 2020
Minnesota Musings What if … After a recent blog post about disliking Mondays, someone tweeted back the question, “What do you think it would have been like had you stayed…mahmudFebruary 24, 2020
Japan DiaryMinnesota Musings I Don’t Like Mondays! Really? I do. Monday, Saturday, Wednesday, any day it makes no difference to me I like em all! Actually, today is Saturday and I’m going…mahmudFebruary 22, 2020