ABOUT

I came to Japan in the mid-eighties. I didn’t plan to stay forty years. I didn’t plan most of the good things.

The Navy taught me how to function under pressure and on bad coffee. Japan taught me how to slow down and watch the world without needing to fix it. Multiple Sclerosis — well, MS taught me that the body has its own agenda, and sometimes the most honest thing you can do is work with it instead of against it.

I write because the world is strange and worth recording. I make AI art because there are images in my head that need somewhere to go. I fly drones because from up there, everything looks like it was always exactly where it was supposed to be.

This isn’t a wellness blog. It’s not a complaint either. It’s a record — of a life lived mostly sideways, regularly surprised, occasionally very quiet.

Forty years in Japan. Still here. Still curious.

— M