Dearest Rachel – Life does not work like literature, honey. Anton Chekov insisted that a gun that appears in the first act of a stage play must be fired by the third act, but that’s not how things work in real life. Your dad’s pistol, hidden (ironically) in a book with its pages hollowed out,Continue reading “Showing Up, At Least”
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The Old Ball Game
Dearest Rachel – The flow through Tokyo Station is like a human ten-lane expressway, with everybody changing lanes at all times. It’s fascinating to contemplate, but when you’re down there, who has time for that? You’re rushing to and fro with all of the other lemmings, trying to make your train. Pausing in the middleContinue reading “The Old Ball Game”
End of the Line
Dearest Rachel – So Sunday saw us off the ship, and on our way into town. Our journey had finally come to an end… sort of. We still had given ourselves a day to knock about the city – and with the ball game I had made a particular point of arranging to see beingContinue reading “End of the Line”
Letters to Rachel 