You’ve smelled them in or around your neighborhood. They turn bright yellow in November and December and are usually clustered in groups along streets or in parks. They are ginkgo trees.

Ginkgo trees put on quite a show, but they can be an assault on the olfactory receptors.

It wasn’t until Thanksgiving weekend that I
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I’m noticing way too much asian-ness on this blog right now, so I’m gonna mix it up a little bit. Gotta keep it culturally diverse. (Insert sarcastic face here).

Fumiko just got back from a jaunt in Barcelona- she has a nice Mediterranean glow and is speaking in funky JaSpanGlish with a weird Catalan accent. Oy.

She brought me back, what else,
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