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Welcome!

Thank you for visiting On The Bright Side. This blog has changed costumes a few times since I began writing in 2002. It first started as e-mail updates from my first apartment in Fuji City, Japan. It was a way for me to journal my daily moments from a very new and intriguing life. The e-mail letters were transformed into newsletters after I got my Mac. And then with encouragement from several friends, I began a Blogger account in 2005.

Once I discovered iWeb, and before I left for my world travels in 2008, I established On The Bright Side as a website. I have just recently converted “my baby” over to this Word Press platform, which meant countless hours of copy & paste to load years of material. Need I say that it proved a good trip down memory lane. I hope you’ll enjoy browsing through entries from now and then.

Having returned from an eight year stint abroad I am rediscovering my hometown of sunny, San Diego. I have a new set of challenges and daily adventures. I may not be headed to Mt. Everest base camp or hiking in the jungles of Thailand, getting blessed by monks in Laos or watching the sunset behind the Eiffel Tower at 10:30pm, but I am enjoying being much, much closer to family and friends, starting my own business and getting back into the groove of life in the USofA.

Thanks for following my journey. May your days always remain, On The Bright Side.

A moment from the early days of On The Bright Side and a favorite photo from Japan…

After returning from Japan, I set out on a five month journey through SE Asia and Europe. I took my laptop with me! There’s a classic “Same Same but Different” t-shirt!