Hi y’all. This week I have some exciting news about the podcast. At least, I hope it is exciting. We are gearing up to begin a second podcast in 2020 called Disabled is Not Broken. We don’t have an official launch date quite yet, but we do have a firm idea about what the...
Fall is my favorite time year of Japan. If feels like a time of hope, happiness and romance. At least, that’s my perception of the season. To be totally honest fall, winter, and spring are all fairly romantic. I think Nagoya, and probably all of Japan, is a very romantic place focused on love,...
For those who don’t know, HCP stands for hereditary corproporphyria, and mine is still raging. I wrote about it in the October 11th blog post, so if you want to know what it is, please check out that post. Today I want to talk more about the emotional and dietary side of it because...
Doing the podcast is a lot of fun, but it is also a lot of work. It feels like a part-time job and once a month becomes a full-time job. We are honest and open about the fact that we record our episodes a bit early. When it is time to record, transcribe, and...
Recently I have been thinking about passing privilege. A lot of people assume that I can pass for white, which I have never been able to do, nor have I wanted to. I have had people tell me that I am “not really black” or not know what I mixed with or assume I...
Recently I have been communicating more with people I have met on social media. Some of them I even talk with on the phone, and they all live outside of Japan. The thing they comment on the most is how “Japanese” my thinking seems to them. This seems so weird to me because I...
Since July, I have been talking a lot about having hereditary coproporphyria (HCP), which has made some of y’all a bit curious about what it is exactly that I have. HCP, as the name suggests, is a genetic disorder that impacts how my body produces heme. Heme is the part of the blood that...
Interestingly enough, a friend recently commented that they thought my job was part of my PhD. That the clients I see are part of my supervision for a PhD in Clinical psychology. I completed my supervision hours over 25 years ago. The clients I see now are a part of my independent therapy practice....
I’m beginning to think my co-chair hates me and the way I think, which is going to make the PhD process all that much harder. I get along great with chair and understand their thinking and know that while they do not think I am perfect and they often give me loads of feedback,...
I feel as though September has been a month of evolution in my thinking and goal setting. August of 2018, we made the decision as a family to give Chad a rest and allow him to focus on his writing. During that year we discovered podcasting and started and launched our podcast The Musicks...