My interest in reporting the progress of the book Taking Tanka Home has dwindled to the point of repeated proofings of the new edition. All boring stuff for other ears so I have been 'suffering along in silence' all by myself. Actually the work with Aya goes so well I haven't even had a chance to suffer. She has been so great! but we are still having problems with the program putting line spaces between the English and the kanji - boring I know!

Then, today I found this challenge at a river of stones and thought that would give me a new stream of ideas for this page. So on January 1 I plan to start the exercise. Join me if you will!