simply janet

Twenty four years ago, I was ending a two-week visit to Tokyo where I’d gone with my mom for her first visit back in nearly 35 years (and my first visit ever). We stayed with family in and around Meguro-ku and Setagaya-ku in Tokyo (my mom grew up in Setagaya).

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In this annual stretch of time from Memorial Day to the week after my birthday, I’m reminded of my trip to Tokyo and the subsequent changes and choices I made after I returned. And every year about this time, I dare myself to try something new. This year it’s a new blog. I’ve been experimenting with blogging elsewhere over the past several months to see if I wanted to break out of writing about knitting and other fiber-related pursuits. Blogging about knitting has been a lovely way to express myself, but then life started happening and loved ones began going through some serious life changes. My parents’ move to Washington led to my desire to explore both my American and Japanese ancestry. Writing about those genealogical discoveries took the place of knitting content over there.

My plan is to keep both blogs — frequency of blogging to be determined. Thank you for reading me in both places.