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Commissioned by an early childhood education provider, this manual guides English teachers in preschools across Japan.

At Our Best: A Teacher’s Guide to Professionalism, Fitting In, Ethics & Responsibilities (PDF)

Clear, practical overview of valuing foreign currency swaps, blending technical insights with real-world treasury experience.

Introduction to the Valuation of Foreign Currency Swaps (PDF)

This project helps music makers enhance focus and progress by setting clear goals for each phase of music production.

Creating Music With Maschine: The Power of Setting Goals (PDF)

Summary of foreign currency swap valuation, emphasizing risk management, collaboration, and market volatility.

Executive Summary: Foreign Currency Swap Derivative Valuation (PDF)

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Simple explanation of foreign currency swaps, showing how businesses manage global risks and safeguard long-term investments.

Foreign Currency Swaps: How They Work and Why They Matter (PDF)

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Interview with expert Andy Orlando, explaining how currency swaps help businesses manage risk and ensure stability.

Understanding Currency Swaps: A Conversation (PDF)

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Comprehensive guide for retirement investors on how currency swaps protect against volatility and ensure stable returns.

Protecting Your Investments: Understanding... (PDF)

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Engaging, accessible article for teens on how currency swaps help businesses manage risk and succeed in global finance.

How Currency Swaps Are Helping Banks & Businesses Win... (PDF)

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Business writing doesn’t have to be dry or impersonal. Discover how storytelling can turn your content into a powerful, emotional journey that connects with your audience and inspires action.

How Storytelling Will Transform Your Business Writing

What if the key to lasting love is the same as the key to great craftsmanship? A trip to Nara, the ancient capital of Japan, reminded us that the things we truly care about—a home, a memory, a relationship—are built day by day, with quiet acts of attention.

Love and Craft in Nara

When used regularly, this simple Japanese tool can stop severe headaches before they start. The Nakayama-Style Healer works by releasing deep tension in the neck and back naturally, without side effects.

The Nakayama-Style Healer and How to Use It

What makes a place feel like home? Not the walls, but the welcome. "The Possible" is a poem about joy, companionship, and the magic of feeling seen.

The Possible

One rainy evening, I got hit by a car on my walk home. What followed was more than just recovery. It was a full-body reset. This is how I came back stronger than ever.

Recovery Mode: Rehab, Rebuild and Reset

Imagine starting your day at a cafe with a hot cup of coffee and a simple breakfast. In Japan, this everyday ritual—called "Morning"—offers a perfect taste of local culture. Want to know more?

Morning in Japan

Have you ever wondered how music can transform your focus and productivity? From the quiet discipline of early violin lessons to the meditative strum of my guitar, I’ve discovered that music is a powerful tool for concentration and creativity. Here’s how it’s shaped my work and life.

The Sound of Focus

Have you ever felt paralyzed by the very change you crave? Discover why the fear of success can be more daunting than failure, and how breaking through it can unlock the transformation you’ve been waiting for.

Vanishing Monoliths

Editing isn’t just about precision: it’s about listening, understanding and enhancing a writer’s voice with clarity and care. See how empathy shapes great editing.

On Clarity and Care: Editing with Empathy

Some moments leave a deeper mark than words ever could. In 'Disputation,' a boy’s silent departure hints at the quiet, powerful changes ahead of him.

Disputation

Finance often feels like a world of complexity and jargon, but clear communication can turn that complexity into clarity. Discover how simplifying financial concepts can empower better decision-making and build trust.

How Clear Communication Transforms Financial Decisions

Mastery comes not from endless struggle, but from creating a cycle of engagement that keeps you eager to return. Whether in music, sports, or business, success thrives on deliberate practice, balance, and knowing when to rest.

Focus, Rest, Repeat: The Path to Mastery in Any Field

Think you can replicate marketing success across markets? Think again. True relevance comes from understanding the deep-rooted identity of a place, and it’s the key to making your brand truly connect.

Dig Deep to Find Roots and Connect Your Brand to the Local Soul

I thought I wanted to build guitars. Turns out, I needed to build a workbench. This is the story of how chasing a dream led me back to the basics.

Learning to Walk: My Long Journey Toward Making Guitars

Craving delicious gluten-free bread? After years of experimentation, I've perfected a rice flour bread roll recipe that's ideal for your kitchen here. If you're looking for a tasty, gluten-free option in Japan, this recipe is your answer!

Baking Gluten-Free Bread in Japan

Ever clicked on a random YouTube video, only to find yourself completely hooked? From woodworking to city planning to watchmaking, these channels turned my casual curiosity into full-blown fascination. If you're looking for something fresh to binge, start here.

Deep Dives and Happy Accidents: YouTube Channels That Hooked Me

What happens when personal change intersects with history’s quiet revolutions? In this exegesis on my poem 'Disputation,' I explore how small moments of departure echo larger transformations.

Fire, Stillness and the Road

Looking for some serious inspiration? These YouTube channels dive deep into the art of making. Whether you're into woodworking, blacksmithing, or restoring the forgotten, these creators will captivate you with their skill, patience and passion.

Craft Meets Creativity: Great Maker Channels on YouTube

What if the trees around us have stories to tell? In nature, growth happens in silence, unnoticed. 'Field Guide' uncovers the hidden resilience of trees and plants, revealing their poetry.

Field Guide

Step away from the everyday and into a space where creativity thrives. Whether deep in the woods or at a quiet desk by the window, the right retreat can transform your writing. Where will your words take you?

The Retreat Awaits: A Sanctuary for Work and Wonder

We went to Okayama to slow down and make something by hand. Glass beads, custom jeans, quiet gardens, and perfect coffee: small moments, lasting souvenirs.

Crafting a Weekend in Okayama

We inherit more than names and photos. "Grandfathers" is a poem tracing absence, family and the rhythms of sleep.

Grandfathers

Last summer, I met a potter who has spent years following Japan’s ceramic traditions. That meeting planted a seed. This summer, I’m letting it grow.

Turning Clay: A New Beginning

What began as a 12-year roadmap with legacy lenses and full-frame ambitions became a lean, focused five-year kit tailored to real-world shooting. This post unpacks how refining the plan revealed not just the gear I need, but the kind of photographer I want to become.

From Long View to Field Kit: Building a 5-Year Lens Plan

Not everything grows from solid ground. In this short poem, lessons of endurance and self-worth unfold through sand, salt and the fight to rise.

Raise Mercy from the Root

A series of speculative posters inspired by the golden age of analog imaging. Each piece imagines a world of fictional lenses and film stocks, designed to feel both familiar and just slightly unreal.

Glass Riot!

Imagine sipping water from a cup you shaped yourself. Every curve and mark of it is a reminder of your own creative touch. Pottery isn't just art, it's connection: to your hands, your home, and something timeless.

Eating from Clay: The Joy of Homemade Vessels

I found myself in the city with a pocket camera and no destination. Three moments stood out, asking to be framed. New York gave them up like it always does: suddenly, perfectly, without warning.

A Clear Day in the City: Three Views, 2010

Every camera bag tells a story. These Fuji and Pentax kits may look like simple lists of lenses, but each choice reflects a vision of how I want to see the world. Wide, normal, and telephoto, they map out not just focal lengths, but a way of working and creating.

Yond Pentax Has a Lean and Hungry Look

Sam Wilschke in front of a construction hoarding banner reading,"SAM," looking directly at the camera.

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Close-up of a tiny vine climbing an old stone wall.

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Front and entrance of Naramachi Traditional House, Nara, Japan.

Nakayama healing devices, both 2- and 4-ball versions, sitting together on a tatami floor.

Trees, lawn and cars on a sunny day in Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD.

Cherry blossoms in front of a small shrine, Tsuruhane, Hiroshima, Japan.

Coffee, toast and a boiled egg at Komeda Coffee, Hiroshima, Japan

Bench painted with flowers in a sunny summer street, Old Town Albuquerque, NM

Sunrise from Mt. Futaba, Hiroshima, Japan.

Peace Tower in the snow, seen from the base of Mt. Futaba, Hiroshima, Japan.

Side entrance to a shrine building showing wooden stairs, zori sandals and a broom, Toshogu Shrine, Hiroshima.

Six gluten-free rice flour bread rolls cooling on a rack.

Roof structure and clear blue sky, Todai-ji temple, Nara, Japan

Mount Sakurajima under clouds, Kagoshima, Japan

Chefs grilling rice cakes over hot coals in a traditional sembe-ya, Tokyo, Japan.

View from the study, Murin-an residence and garden, Kyoto, Japan: showing interior with desk and exterior with trees and attached buildings.

Okayama Castle rises above the trees and the river.

Giant bust of a playing card King's head sits in a parking lot after removal from the facade of a pachinko parlor, Hiroshima, Japan.

A set of tools for working with clay, laid out on a table, all marked with the initials "SW."

Cars parked outside of a garage with a monochrome mural on the side wall depicting the same building 75 years ago, Asheville, NC.

Sun rises over buildings on the other side of a river, with grass and morning dew in the foreground.

A group of handmade ceramic vessels, including a cup, bowls and small pinch pots, all made by the author.

Asahi Pentax K1000 with SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/2 prime lens mounted.