My wife's taking a trip to Nagoya with her mother and daughter for two days, leaving me alone behind. They will see their relatives, visiting one who has been seriously ill and expected not to have much time left. Today I'm taking a day off without my family, so that my house's filled with rare sile…

On a pleasant sunny day in late autumn, I was taking a day off, having received a dental checkup first thing in the morning, then seen a chiropractor, besides gone swimming after that. Several laps of crawling made my body heavier than usual, but I shouldn't hate such a burden considering I need to …

Having entered this November, it means that this year is nearly over, though the fact's quite unbelievable to me. Recently I'm working on the same way as ever, getting a bit busier, and I spent mostly the rest of time in being with my family, sometimes going to swim, still reading Harry Potter. A fe…

Surely, it must have been all my fault. The filthy sin, which we could always spot anywhere around ourselves, out of control, sliding down into the bottom looking out of bounds. It's also because of me this night was stuck in suffocating silence and discord, her face seemed covered by withered sadne…

The dark night sky, almost without any stars, covered over quiet streets, our breathing alone sounding slightly. She, whose name was Sena, was holding my hand a bit weakly, and her profile looked stiff. Not the same as usual, I felt that. Anyone else didn't walk anywhere around us, ominous deep sile…

Lord Voldemort had risen again. The fourth book of Harry Potter seems to be condensed into this brief phrase. Finally, the story began to enter into the most important, serious phase. The boy who once appeared to be innocent and ignorant was forced to get more confused, more distressed, more knowled…

The nightfall came down sooner than I had expected. It seemed always so, she was saying when she was beside me. The night was suitable for both of us. Signals on the road was flickering at the same intervals, just like our slightly pounding hearts. But it could be a bad sign, not that good for anyon…

Abruptly, the cold weather comes in as if this autumn were skipped over. Without the slightest recognition, all years are passing away swiftly in front of my eyes. Whenever reflecting how I has been for this year, usually I feel dazed how fast days has gone, how far away some remarkable events have …

It has been a long time since I swam last. Maybe, it's far beyond twenty years. About a dozen days ago, I registered my name as a member of the fitness club near my house, which also my daughter's attending to learn swimming once a week. The first day, I felt my shoulders aching as if tightly constr…

Yesterday, the state funeral for the former prime minister Abe Shinzo was held. I don't have a thing for him, and I think that there's no need to hold the state funeral despite so many voices of objection. Maybe, it's a mistake for Kishida Fumio to have decided to force the funeral upon those who ar…

What makes you trustworthy is not your words, but your deed and behavior. Lately I'm thinking about that frequently, because words can deceive anyone in various ways, and they're just some kind of sign. Although all signs should indicate only a true destination, it's not unusual that false signs dis…

Sirius Black is an amazing man. He had been imprisoned for a false charge in the terrifying fortress called Azkaban, but never gone mad despite the Dementors roaming around near him at all times. What enables him to endure such a harsh state for twelve years is the thought that he's really innocent,…

While the summer getting nearer to the end, I have been as busy as usual with various things. For instance, I have made two trips during this summer. July of this year, I went to Ikaho-Onsen with my family alone, and a few days ago, I went to Atami-Onsen with my old parents, my wife and six-year-old…

Late last month, I finished re-reading the book "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" once again, and I was absorbed in it deeply. The suspense made my fingers keep turning the pages, and so many ingenious underplots got me dazed. I can't tell what the author had planned about Harry's tale befor…

On 25th August 2022, this blog Saladboze Diary celebrated the 7th anniversary of its opening. These days, I have been so busy with various things that I can neither write nor post any articles on this blog. First, my daughter has been enjoying her summer holidays since July 15th, therefore I have no…

It's only when I had gone to a bookstore near Tokyo Station a few days ago that I got to know that this year, the book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" celebrated its 25th anniversary since it had been published first. By chance, I have finished re-reading that novel a while ago, and now i…

Recent days, I have been so busy with working that I was not able to write my impressions on the book "The Alchemist" down. As a result, my memories about a content of The Alchemist is getting vaguer day by day, but even if it seems imprecise, I want to record a bit of my consideration on that novel…

The same as ever, I keep reading some books in English, and "The alchemist" written by Paulo Coelho is one of them that I have been reading lately, that impressed me in many ways. Reading the novel, I feel that it resembles partly each of books that I read before, such as "The Artist's Way", "Who Mo…

A few days ago, I finished reading "The Story of Doctor Dolittle" written by Hugh Lofting. When I was a kid, I had read this series translated into Japanese, and since then it had been the best one for a long time that I liked most among various books which I had met ever. Although now I forget the …

Recently, I have been reading two books in turns. One is "Mate: Become the Man Women Want" and another is "The Story of Doctor Dolittle" which was my favorite book when I was a kid. They might seem very different from each other, and it's definitely true. However, both of them highly interest me, so…