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LONG TIME NO POST, BUT TODAY, SOMETHING REALLY WORTH POSTING!

Posted by Sakura Kai on Friday, August 25, 2023, In : Betty's Blogs 
In August 2023, JET Progress productions finished filming the movie WINNOWING in which I debuted as the STAR! I played two roles, Draqual Casting Director Aika Abiko and auditioning actress Sakura Kai. As Sakura Kai, I read six roles from master author and screenwriter William Maltese! OMG! It was so much English!  I still can't believe I did it. Now, WINNOWING is available to watch for FREE in Standard Definition on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwZbCAjOFdc. Today, the first viewe...
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PhD

Posted by Dan on Friday, April 29, 2022, In : Dan's Blogs 

A doctor of philosophy degree wherein one knows more and more about less and less. The key is the word philosophy, meaning “love of wisdom,” whereas doctorate simply implies the highest degree (of). But seriously, what is wisdom? Or knowledge (shouldn’t all degreed individuals possess knowledge)? And where do information and data fit in?


In my experience, the lowest form of education involves the memorization of data. Having a storehouse of data at one’s fingertips used to be a major...


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STATIC

Posted by Setsuko Tsuchiya on Thursday, April 28, 2022, In : Dan's Blogs 

TRUE, there’s more and more static appearing in every facet of life, be it relationships, culture, politics, finances and consumer information – you name it. But there’s also some good news about some of that static: namely the K. Simmons Production STATIC movie that premiered in 2021. A family friendly, science fiction/drama, Susan’s struggle to find balance in her life as she deals with her practical husband Donald and her father Will who’s showing symptoms of early onset Alzheime...


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THIS IS IT!!!!

Posted by Betty on Sunday, September 19, 2021, In : Betty's Blogs 
In seven days, on Saturday, 25 September 2021 at 7 PM Hawaii Time "The STATIC Movie" will premiere on Hawaii's KHON2, KHII and CW. It will ALSO premiere internationally on 25 Sept at 7 PM Hawaii Time AND 26 Sept at 7 PM Eastern Standard Time on https://www.khon2.com


I had a lot of fun as a "supporting actress" playing Edna in The Static Movie. I played an old Japanese lady in a nursing home, playing bridge with friends. In the movie I finally won the bridge game breaking Yuriko Asakawa's (pl...

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WHAT ARE YOU DOING TONIGHT? あなたは今、何をしていますか??

Posted by Betty on Monday, May 24, 2021, In : Betty's Blogs 
What are you doing, tonight?

Dan is helping me practice rehearsing my lines for the upcoming move "Static" (https://kspllc.media/the-static-movie). I auditioned for a part, and -- surprise -- I am now Edna and a volunteer actress with actual lines to say in a movie! It's not my first time in movies, however. Dan and I danced as extras in an episode of the TV series "Fantasy Island." It was exciting to see myself on TV! So now I'm even more excited to see myself in a real movie, talking! It's n...
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DANCING IN THE SHADOWS シャドーでのダンスステップ

Posted by Dan Janik on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, In : Dan's Blogs 
Everyone dances. Dancing is simply moving through time and space. And one of the best ways to dance is to dance with someone else. 

Whether it's a Slow Waltz, Viennese Waltz, Slow Foxtrot, Quickstep or intriguing Tango, or a Rumba, ChaCha, Samba, Jive or Paso Doble, most partners dance face-to-face. 

Some time ago, Dan and I were introduced to side-to-side dance figures for variety. It's challenging in that it's different from usual. 

More recently, we've been practicing "shadow" figures (in our...
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GOOD DANCING! よく出来ました!

Posted by Betty on Friday, April 9, 2021, In : Betty's Blogs 
My husband and I went to the gym to practice dance. Today is our second time.
During driving to the gym, we talked not having practiced for over a year. Then we talked about dancing today without arguing and not being too strict.

When we started dancing, he mentioned that he was having trouble leading. He said "You are too fast! Please follow my lead!"

Then he explained why he was having trouble. He said it was because my right elbow kept moving back behind my shoulder. I didn't feel that I was ...
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WE ARE DANCING AGAIN! REAL DANCING ON A BIG DANCE FLOOR! 大きなフロアーでダンスを再開できて嬉しい!

Posted by Betty on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, In : Betty's Blogs 
Today my husband and I went to our local 24-Hour Fitness gym for registering. 

We had to stop to dancing and exercising at the gym in early 2020 because of COVID; we didn't expect to come back.

But dancing is dancing, and dancing is big for us. So we did it, and are ready to resume "tripping the light fantastic."  

It was so good to be practicing on a big studio floor once again. We danced for almost an hour and now are back home, resting and watching "Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories." 

It's nice t...
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First Kiss! 彼とのはじめてのくちづけは?

Posted by Betty on Monday, March 22, 2021, In : Betty's Blogs 
My husband and I watched the movie "Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears." This story is abut a woman detective and her special policeman friend, Jack. The two love each other but they don't tell each other. Jack eventually tells Miss Fisher about his feeling heart. She returned his feeling and tried kiss to Jack.

Suddenly, my husband asked me "Do you remember when we first kissed?"

I was completely surprised by his question. In fact, I don't remember precisely. I do remember where we first met. ...

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Discovery my book! 本の事で再確認!

Posted by Betty on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, In : Betty's Blogs 
I am still translating my book, THE POWER OF DANCE from English to Japanese. Today I asked my husband, Dan, some questions about the translation. He asked me that what is the genre of your new book? Eh? I was confused.

"Is your book fiction or non-fiction?" he asked. Now, he became once again an English 101 professor, and I returned to being a college student.

"It is non-fiction," I replied. 

"Will it be a textbook?" he asked. 

"Maybe," I replied. "Maybe not." 

He reminded me that if it is a textb...

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Dance Exercise Part 2! ダンス エクササイズ

Posted by Dan Janik on Monday, March 1, 2021, In : Dan's Blogs 
Today we completed the second part of our "Beginner" level dance exercises, directed to gently strengthening posture (core) and back muscles for ballroom and Latin dance frame. You're the first ones to see it!!! 


This video is for people who have gotten out of shape during the pandemic or are beginning to dance socially. It is the second video of our dance exercises that we usually do. In the next one, part three, we will cover more posture (core) building exercises...

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Dance Exercise! ダンス エクササイズ

Posted by Dan Janik on Thursday, February 18, 2021, In : Dance Exercises 
It's been almost a year since we last went dancing with other couples. In the meantime, Betty has been working hard on her new book tentatively called either "The Power of Dance" or "Dance Power." Every other day Dan and I either dance together at our house or do toning exercises so we'll be ready to go dancing again. Today we completed the first part of our "Beginner" level dance exercises, directed to gently strengthening upper arm ballroom and Latin dance frame. You're the first ones to se...
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THE LAW OF ATTRACTION

Posted by Betty on Tuesday, January 19, 2021, In : Betty's Blogs 
Happy New Year! It is already the middle of January. Even though I stay home every day, time flies.

My husband and I have been searching for a TV program that we both enjoy to watch in the evenings. Like going to a movie theater for a date. In this case, a COVID "home" date together. 

The Amazon Prime movie we selected is called, "ATLANTIS." 

When we started to watch, a character announced that his name was Pythagoras. His friend was Hercules, and the main character was Jason. This episode was a...
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WHY READ FICTION?

Posted by Dan Janik on Friday, December 11, 2020, In : Dan's Blogs 

Earlier today, I began thinking about the phrase “better than…” and several thoughts bubbled up in my loquacious mind, eventually coalescing into the question, “Better than reality?” Which leads me to today’s post, “Why read fiction these days reality is already quite a bit stranger and more engaging than fiction?”


Let me qualify this: “Better than…what?” Better than eating? Better than money? Better than sex? Better than writing?. Better than…fiction? 


Having a crea...


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Language is Culture, Not Just words!

Posted by Betty on Wednesday, December 2, 2020, In : Betty's Blogs 

I am working to translate the dance portions of IN SEARCH OF SOMATIC THERAPY (Savant 2017) into a separate, combined English/Japanese book (I'm from Japan and my first book generated a lot of interest in Japan about the dance portions especially). When I wrote about them the first time, I didn't realize it would be so challenging to translate English (my second language) back to Japanese. Now I am editing the English portion a second time, and discovering that language is heavily based in cul...


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Essays!

Posted by Betty on Wednesday, September 9, 2020, In : Betty's Blogs 
Aloha!

Still staying-at-home in Honolulu. I have plenty of time so far, because COVID-19 IS still spreading here. So I decided to publish a second book, tentatively entitled, "It All Begins with Dance," in both Japanese and English.

Before writing the book, I want to clear the difference between expository essay and research paper. So, what's the difference? 

I studied writing essays and research papers in an American undergraduate college, but that was some years ago. However, in fact. I am sud...

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PHRYNE FISHER AND THE CRYPT OF TEARS

Posted by Dan Janik on Thursday, July 9, 2020, In : Dan's Blogs 

Phryne Fisher, the quintessential female detective created by Kerry Greenwood and enacted by Essie Davis in the TV series and most recently the cinematic production, Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears, flew into our house today, a birthday present by Dan's sister. In wide-screen BluRay, Miss Fisher lives up to her reputation as an independent woman jack-of-all-trades and master of all things detective. Miss Fisher's relationship with Detective Inspector John "Jack" Robinson develops during th...
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DREAM CRUISING! 夢のクルージング!

Posted by Betty on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, In : Betty's Blogs 
Over the last years, my husband and I have taken to cruising. We tried cruising once in early spring, another time in summer and again in fall. Mostly short 5 to 7 day cruises around Hawaii and along the Mexican Riviera. More recently we cruised for 10 days from Honolulu to Vancouver B.C. Canada. We had just planned a 21-day dance cruise on Cunard's Queen Elizabeth from Yokohama, Japan to Russia, to Alaska to Vancouver. Unfortunately, COVID-19 appeared in March/April basically stopping the en...
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DANCESPORT GOES ONLINE

Posted by Dan on Monday, May 18, 2020, In : Dan's Blogs 
DanceSport lessons have been offered online for almost a decade; now it looks like DanceSport Competitions may go online, too!  Makes sense, as all major gatherings around the world are still basically cancelled or, for health reasons, not recommended to participate in or attend. 


The venue will probably be something like this: Either register and (1) perform "live" via videocam and be "judged" via the traditional skating system; or (2) make a digital recording meeting the new "online competit...
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OUT OF BALANCE - OUT OF LIFE

Posted by Dan on Friday, May 8, 2020, In : Dan's Blogs 
Today's post is somewhat complex and begins with a 1982 film entitled Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance -- followed by Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002). Considered by many a must-see trilogy, it's the over-riding premise of Koyaanisqatsi that I want to emphasize here is that the "problem" today isn't COVID-19 (that's just the match), or broken infrastructure (that's just the fuse), but extending decades into the past, it is a growing lack of balance (that's the dynamite). Not balance ...
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DANCE, DAN, DANCE! ダンス、ダン、ダンス!

Posted by Betty on Monday, May 4, 2020, In : Betty's Blogs 
In Hawaii, we have been in "lockdown" for a month now. That means no social dances, performances or competitions. We teach dance at the Palladium for International Ballroom Dance Inc. No Palladium; cancelled indefinitely. We planned to go to UK this year to compete in the British Open. Delayed and delayed. Then we planned to go on a dance cruise. Cancelled, rescheduled, and cancelled again. Our coaches here have had to close their studios, at least for now. We can't get to our coaches in Japa...
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EXERCISING DURING A "LOCKDOWN" (外出禁止令中の運動)

Posted by Betty on Monday, April 27, 2020, In : Betty's Blogs 
I expect that in the coming years we will be experiencing additional epidemics/pandemics and lockdowns, so, if you're "stuck at home" and are bored with nothing to do, may I suggest this:  Japan's children are introduced to exercise before they start school. They perform basic active range of motion movements for toning and suppleness.


Later, as "radio calesthenics" to popular music, they were broadcast for adults to use in the mornings. They are not designed to increase cardiovascular reserv...
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BUILDING A HEALTHIER HOME (住み易い部屋)

Posted by Setsuko Tsuchiya on Saturday, March 14, 2020, In : Betty's Blogs 
In early December 2019, we woke up to find a pool of water in our bathroom, working its way under the wood-like laminate flooring in our hallway, living room and two bedrooms. OMG! A pipe had burst above us in the condominium building we live in. Right away, insurance, mitigators and contractors swooped in to help. It was, however, only after over three months of living with cardboard flooring, that we were able to begin reconstruction, and this time -- no unhealthy laminate, we wanted real w...
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I HAVE TWO HUSBANDS!

Posted by Betty on Monday, June 3, 2019, In : Betty's Blogs 
Today, I have two husbands. Dan just finished writing a new book entitled "The Edge of Madness." The story is like future science fiction, and he wrote it under one of his author pseudonyms, Raymond Gaynor. He uses this name for thrillers and has published two already: TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) with William Maltese, and QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2017) with A. G. Hayes. His new story begins where TOTAL MELTDOWN ends; namely the downsizing of the USA to form a much smaller NewAmerica, mu...
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ANOTHER WAY...

Posted by Betty on Sunday, May 26, 2019, In : somatic therapy 
When I woke up this morning, I suddenly had a new idea about somatic therapy.

When I am frustrated, irritable or in a bad mood, I have begun going to a gym and moving or do exercising, rather than just talking with someone. This action supports my theory of somatic therapy (emphasizing first correcting the body with the mind following - Dr. Wilhelm Reich's version) verses somatic therapy (which, being largely regarded as a form of psychology, emphasizes correcting the mind through talking with...
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CRUISING

Posted by Betty on Sunday, May 12, 2019, In : Dan's Blogs 
Betty and I are about to return to our home in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA after our yearly 14 day vacation. It all began towards the end of April, when we jumped aboard the Celebrity Eclipse for a cruise around Maui and Big Island, and then five days at sea traveling to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Three days there and it's back to Honolulu. 

This is our fifth cruise and our first with Celebrity. Our first four were with Carnaval from Los Angeles or San Diego to Mexico, and our fifth was wi...
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A ZIG-ZAGGY FISHTAIL

Posted by Betty on Monday, March 11, 2019, In : Betty's Blogs 
Nope. Not a new fossil from China. Not a deformed fillet either. We're working on a new and unique figure for our Quickstep; namely a Zig-Zag, followed by a Cross Swivel amalgamated with a Fishtail. Neither is new, of course; in fact, they've been around so long few competitors are dancing them in Quickstep, focusing instead on a variety of novel runs. Amalgamated, however, these three classic figures create a unique break to the rhythm and flow of Quickstep. 

Looking over the over 30+ revisio...
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TIMING, TEMPO AND RHYTHM

Posted by Betty on Thursday, January 10, 2019, In : Betty's Blogs 
My husband (and dance partner) and I talked about how to explain rumba today. Our instructor, Mr. Albert Franz, always said what made a dance particular was foot position, rise and fall, sway, contra body (Modern or Standard Ballroom) or Cuban motion (Latin), timing and rhythm, direction/allignment, turn, footwork, and finally, precede/follows, but it is timing and rhythm that seems to give the biggest problem and cause the most confusion in dancers. In my book, IN SEARCH OF SOMATIC THERAPY (...
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REAL SOMATIC THERAPY!

Posted by Betty (Setsuko Tsuchiya) on Monday, January 7, 2019, In : Betty's Blogs 
Happy New Year!

It is already Jan. 6th. Time goes so fast.

My husband and I went to Hawaii Kai Retirement Center to host a monthly dance. It's strictly volunteer, and I love it!

This is the first event of 2019. We hold it on the first Sunday of every month. This month was New Year's Party!

From 6:00 pm, retirement center residents gathered at "The Ice Cream Parlor" in the Center next to the dining room in Phase Two. We danced to Glen Miller's music for 20 minutes, then we did a Tango performance,...
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MACHO, MACHO, MACHO [MUSCLE] MAN AND WOMAN

Posted by Betty on Monday, December 31, 2018, In : Betty's Blogs 
I am reviewing bones and their muscles, and how to use them in ballroom and Latin dancing.

Arm to hand:

Upper arm - humerus bone (one bone) with three major muscles -- biceps, deltoid and triceps. Biceps flexes the arm like a flower closing. Triceps extends the arm  like a flower opening. Deltoid moves the arm to the side like a bird's wing. 

Lower arm - radius and ulna (two bones) with two major muscles -- pronator teres and pronator quadratus. Both muscles pronate (turns the hand palm down) ...
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More ENGLISH! もっともっと英語を!

Posted by Betty on Monday, October 1, 2018, In : Betty's Blogs 
今、彼のブログを日本語に訳したんだけど、すごい時間を要して疲れた!と同時に、もっと英語、勉強しなきゃあ!って思った。

英語での本を出版してから、英語トラウマと、仕事柄、日本語が多い!そして日本語での日々の生活が多くなった。
だから、必然的に、脳みそは日本語。寂しい!!

時々、日本語での夢をみたあさは、あっ!日本語の夢だった!とちょっと...
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FROZEN IN HAWAII

Posted by Betty on Monday, October 1, 2018, In : Dan's Blogs 
Watching Disney's "Frozen" reminds us that somewhere in the world, there's more snow than just shave ice in a bowl. Shave ice is Hawaii's way of remembering what winter is like elsewhere. In fact, my favorite winter (i.e. shave ice) is Waialua dark chocolate flavor. Yumm. Now that's what I call winter.

Being originally from Alaska, I'm often asked why I moved to Hawaii. Sunshine, tradewinds, sweet smelling flowers, lots of great ballroom and latin dancing. I'm equally often asked if I miss Al...
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CRITICAL THINKING!! (よく考えて、、!!)

Posted by Betty on Tuesday, April 3, 2018, In : Betty's Blogs 

Aloha!

WOO…it is 2018 April…time and money go so fast! I have decided to restart Futari Blog!

It is very easy to stop something but it is very challenging to continue a blog.


It is 1 April 2018, but this is not an April Fool's joke: I read in the newspaper that coffee can be dangerous to drink. My husband mentioned that perhaps it is the processing that introduces dangerous chemicals. Actually, I wanted to talk about drinking bitter coffee yesterday. So people have at least five taste se...


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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Posted by Betty on Wednesday, January 14, 2015, In : Betty's Blogs 
Happy New Year!!

It has been so busy a new year.  I went to work on New Year's Day.  After working, Dan and I attended my editor's wedding in the evening on January second (my editor, David, is editing my upcoming book, IN SEARCH OF SOMATIC THERAPY).  The weather was heavy with rain but the wedding had so many people and was a very relaxed ceremony.

It has been three years since Dan injured his knee and his doctor said to forget about dancing. He recommended surgery and said he had a 75% chance...
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BACK ON THE DANCE FLOOR - WELL, ALMOST!

Posted by Setsuko Tsuchiya on Wednesday, January 14, 2015, In : Dan's Blogs 
Ever since I was a child, I've loved dance, but it wasn't until I was almost 40 years old that I got my break. That's when I met Betty. We met in Berkeley, California, at a YMCA dance, and have been dancing together since. When we moved to Hawaii, we took lessons as keen amateurs from a variety of dance teachers and coaches beginning with Judy Athens, moving on to Albert Franz, who gave us our first taste of competition dancesport, and, while recovering from a knee injury, continuing our expl...
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WRITER's UNBLOCK

Posted by Dan on Tuesday, September 16, 2014, In : Dan's Blogs 
It's been awhile, and you might be wondering what Betty and I are doing. I'll let Betty "kiss and tell" in her posting. For me, I've been being a good author. 

You probably know about my two children's books, A WHALE'S TALE (Savant 2009) and THE TURTLE DANCES (Savant 2013), at least I hope you do! If you haven't read them, now is the time! They're available world-wide from Amazon.com. The first is about ohana (Hawaiian for "family"), and the second is about enjoying moving -- "dance, dance, da...
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The Grand Hotel Budapest

Posted by Dan and Betty on Tuesday, April 8, 2014, In : Dan's Blogs 
As a publisher, editor and "multi-award-winning author," I'm often asked by writers aspiring to become authors, what I recommend to help make the transition easier or more effective. The answer is a bit like a keen amateur dancer asking how to become a professional dancer. The answer is, there is no one answer I know other than, if you're a dancer, dancing your heart out every moment of your life, and, if you're a writer, writing your heart out every moment of your life and showing what you'r...
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Happy New Year!

Posted by Betty and Dan on Thursday, January 2, 2014, In : Betty's Blogs 
Happy New year!  明けましておめでとうございます。本年もよろしくお願い致します。
今日も仕事でした。新年早々、仕事で、一年が始まる。春から縁起が良い!という事でしょうか?

2014 My resolution is enjoy our life.  I finally would like to publish my book and I will try to improve our dancing.
I appreciate any sutiation even I am mad. If I want to do new things just do it.  
I sleep more than seven hours constantly. It means to be...
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More Turtles, Turtles, Turtles!

Posted by Betty and Dan on Saturday, November 16, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 


I've just received my order of 60 turtles from Fiesta: one turtle per THE TURTLE DANCES book. At the Savant Bookstore Honolulu, it's exclusively $16.95 for the book and a turtle. Hurry before they all crawl out of the box and disappear!  Savant Bookstore Honolulu:

Fridays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Hawaii Kai Retirement Center (free parking);
Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon at Kokua Market (free parking, too).

See you there! Just say Dan sent you!

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Turtles, Turtles, Turtles! Awesome!

Posted by Dan and Betty on Wednesday, October 23, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
Now that my new children's Color-Me-Please book, THE TURTLE DANCES (Savant 2013), has been released, I'm out looking for some stuffed animals to include along with the book. They've got to be realistic (I'm a naturalist) and yet cute and cuddly (after all, Isla, the dancing turtle and her dance partner, Surf, are beautiful turtles in looks and heart). While I haven't yet fully decided, I'm favoring these GUNDimals turtles. 


What do you think? Have you read my new book about Isla, the Hawaiian ...

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Dancing!

Posted by Betty and Dan on Tuesday, September 17, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
Aloha!

Dan and I have been busy almost one month. We were surprised that we haven't blogged for one month. During the month, however, we returned to dancing, now two days a week! It was so fun dancing again. I'm glad Dan is able to dance again. For the past three years, I have been helping Dan to recover without surgery. The hours of massage and muscle releasing are paying off finally.

When we went to dancing, everyone we knew asked us what happened. We are so happy to be dancing again. 

In the ...
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The Betty-Dan-Truman Show

Posted by Betty and Dan on Monday, August 19, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
Weird. I was just watching "The Truman Show" and suddenly wondered if you're watching me blog. Are you? And if so, what do you see? The North Shore. At least, today. Well, earlier today. Betty and I drove to the North Shore, end of the road at Mokuleia, near where the "Lost" plane crashed. Really! Betty and I one day came upon this section of plane on the beach, with debris scattered everywhere. Being a physician, I thought to myself, "Oh, shit!" Then I noticed the movie trailers parked along...
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The Legend of Studio 54

Posted by Betty and Dan on Thursday, July 11, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
Our last time in Las Vegas (yeh, everyone who's anyone goes to Las Vegas at least once from Honolulu), we made it a priority to stop and go dancing at the MGM Grand's albeit watered down version of the famous Studio 54. I must admit right at the beginning that neither of us ever had the opportunity of going to the original in the Big Apple. So, instead we danced our hearts out all evening to Disco '70 music and partied until the wee hours just as if we'd been at the "real" Studio 54 in the 70...
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When Men Cry for Joy...

Posted by Betty and Dan on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
The earth is a magnificent place. Think Swiss Alps, red autumn leaves, the scent of frangiapanni in the air, ripe mangoes. It's people who are the problem. Hurt, depressed, vengeful, they replay their hurt on one another over and over, incessantly, hoping against hope that someone, somewhere will save them from themselves. Is a better world possible when so much pain is circulating around in ever widening spirals? Is our fate that of a magnificent world of damaged Conan the Barbarians where t...
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Bollywood Movie!

Posted by Betty and Dan on Monday, June 17, 2013, In : Betty's Blogs 
Good evening!  happy Father's Day!

My husband and I recently enjoy watching Bollywood movies.  According to wikipedia, "Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India".

We watched three Bollywood movies so far.  They are dancing and love stories.  Three stories based on what love is, 

We watched "Dil To Pagal Hai", dancing and love story.  What is true love?  The story is dancing and love and happy end.
The dancing 
c...
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My Husband, Dan!

Posted by Betty and Dan on Friday, June 7, 2013, In : Betty's Blogs 
Aloha!

I write in English tonight,too.  When I went to my interview, I realized that I want to improve English more so I tried to write my Blog in English.  This is challenging for me and how much I can write it in English.
May be I will write my Blog in Japanese tomorrow.  I already am tired to write my Blog in English.

Today, I write about part one of my husband.  Dan, 
American, my husband and I met in California (CA). When my lady friend and I went to social dance class at YMCA in Berkeley CA...
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Poetically Perfect

Posted by Betty and Dan on Friday, June 7, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
Although I'm a prose writer by profession, I've always been a poet at heart. Maybe at the heart of every good prose writer is a poet. Whatever, I began writing poetry at 12 years of age and have been writing ever since. In undergraduate college I wrote a poem called "Everyway" which won many honors and is one of my favorite to this day. Then came "Water Faucet Man" and many others, eventually collected in three editions: (1) "Footprints, Smiles and Little White Lies," (2) "The Illustrated Mid...
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Foot Dressing

Posted by Betty and Dan on Tuesday, June 4, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
When it comes to dressing, the feet have it! Where twenty years ago, shoes were shoes, and there was little difference from one men's brand to another, now there's foot dressing for every mood and occasion. 

For instance, there's "flash shoes," that flash bright lights every time one walks, calling attention to one's presence. "To shine like a light" was an achievable goal at last!

Then there's "rock shoes," with their curved bottoms and "natural" appeal. What could be better than natural shoes...
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Dream Comes True!

Posted by Betty & Dan on Thursday, May 16, 2013, In : Betty's Blogs 
Good Evening!

昨晩は、日本からのお友達ご夫婦とその方々の新婚さんお友達ご夫婦とDinnerに、、。
いろいろお話して、、。
おかきと佃煮のお土産を頂いて、、。(ありがとう!)

お話の中で、”夢を諦めないでネ!”一生懸命していたらいつかは叶うから、、、!
お友達、新婚さんご夫婦も、ずっと頑張って来て夢が叶ったから、、って、。

Dream Comes True!

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The Turtle Dances

Posted by Betty and Dan on Monday, May 6, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
I don't think I've shared that I'm a multi-award-winning author of a variety of books ranging from non-ficition educational works to poetry collections to novels and children's books. My first children's book, SOURDOUGH SCOTT'S BEDTIME FAIRYTALES FROM ALASKA (Publication Consultants, 2005) is a collection of three "modern" fairy tales I made up and told around campfires throughout Alaska until someone suggested I write them down for posterity. 

That done, I wrote a non-fiction education work, ...
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"How Low Can You Go?" - An Old "Limbo" Dance Saying

Posted by Betty and Dan on Saturday, April 27, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
Hello, Sentence Dancers!

As a professor of liberal arts who teaches English 101/102 and Writing, and the author of over 60 books and articles, I am often asked how to make one's writing more interesting. One first-year college secret is to use differing sentence structure. But first, it is important to understand the difference between a clause and a sentence. A clause is a group of words with a subject and a verb. A sentence is a group of words (1) with a subject, and (2) a verb, that (3) beg...
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Dance, Dance, Dance!

Posted by Betty and Dan on Thursday, April 25, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
Betty told you about tradition, I want to tell you about now, today, this moment. 

Every Wednesday evening from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Betty and I sponsor a social dance (ballroom - waltz, foxtrot, tango, quickstep, sometimes Viennese waltz; and Latin - rumba, cha-cha, samba, jive, sometimes paso doble). It's free at the Elks Club in Waikiki to members and guests. Any donations go to the Elks scholarship fund. Come join Betty and me for a light dinner and dancing on Wednesday nights. Parking i...
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Special Lunch and Dinner for a Working Woman

Posted by Betty and Dan on Monday, April 22, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
I enjoyed making lunch and dinner today for Betty. It's her day off and she deserves it. She works so hard. I appreciate her.

For lunch we had Danish "open-face" sandwiches. Each small sandwich was one quarter of a slice of toasted rye bread, with mayonnaise, fresh ground pepper, and special toppings. These included "spicy tuna" (Hawaiian "pupu" or appetizer; Japanese sashimi), Italian prosciutto, or Roma tomato slice. Then, from our garden either a leaf of Manoa lettuce, basil, mint or shiso...
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ありがとう!Thank you Dan!

Posted by Betty and Dan on Monday, April 22, 2013, In : Betty's Blogs 
今日はどんな一日でしたか?

今日は日曜日。彼も私も日曜日。骨休みの日。

私は、ゆっくり出来たけど、彼はLunchも夕飯も作ってくれた。

ありがとう!

優しい彼にありがとう!

Betty!

 

 

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