Susan Blumberg-Kason

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Happy Boxing Day!

December 26, 2010 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

Happy Boxing Day to those who celebrate it in Great Britain and Commonwealth countries (plus Austria).Although this photo has nothing to do with Boxing Day, it's a fun shot my mom took in London during the summer of 1967.Because without London, there'd be no Boxing … [Read more...]

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Christmas in Chinatown

December 25, 2010 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

So twenty years ago I celebrated Christmas in Yokohama. As I posted yesterday, my mom and I flew from Hong Kong to Tokyo days before Christmas.I remember driving around Yokohama on Christmas day with my mom's old friends, the Nakajimas (pictured here with my mom), Christmas … [Read more...]

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Yokohama, 1990

December 24, 2010 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

Even though I'm Jewish, I enjoy the traditional spirit of Christmas and look forward to spending this time of year with family and friends.To me, Christmas evokes warm memories.I can do that.Twenty years ago yesterday I sat for this photo in Yokohama, Japan. The … [Read more...]

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Book of the week–On the Way to Feed the Swans

December 23, 2010 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

After reading about Russia last week, I traveled across Europe to Germany (in my mind) and picked up Hannelore Hahn's memoir, On the Way to Feed the Swans (Tenth House Enterprises, 1982). And that's what I read this week.Hahn is the founder and president of the International … [Read more...]

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Giant Buddhas at Bamian, 1965

December 21, 2010 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

As a follow up to some previous posts about my mom's trip to Afghanistan in 1965, here's one more slide.I first heard of these Buddhist statues in Bamian when the Taliban put them on the international news circuits in 2001.  You know, when the Taliban threatened and then … [Read more...]

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