by Rebecca Copeland | May 27, 2026 | Retirement
“Have you found anything surprising?” my friend asks me. I’ve been going through old files as I prepare to vacate my office, closing the door on a long career teaching Japanese literature. “Oh, I don’t know. Just the usual.” My file cabinets are packed full of meeting... 
by Rebecca Copeland | May 13, 2026 | Memories
Ron perched on the edge of the desk. He held a book of poems in one hand, a cigarette in the other. “We’ll work on Japanese forms today,” he said. “The tanka. Show me what you’ve got.” Over the weekend he had assigned Kenneth Rexroth’s One Hundred Poems from the... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Mar 25, 2026 | Japanese Literature
There’s a trend these days on social media to acknowledge “the last time” someone does something. Often, it’s something to mark a milestone. For example, the other day I saw a video of a mother telling her pre-adolescent son that she will always remember the first... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Dec 31, 2025 | Memories
“What did you do today?” The question is innocuous enough. For family and friends this is a friendly way to open a conversation. Responses can be brief or meandering but usually introduce one or two projects completed over the course of the day. But, what if you did...
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