Are you guilty of posting vague encouragement on social media? Please stop. Find out what's bothering your audience (or at least me) when they see vague commands and self-care tips; hear my theory on what you might think you're doing (but you aren't); and learn five things you can do to make your social media posts more effective.

A new Japanese ghost story about an Edo-era stone carver in Tateyama, Chiba.

Prefer to read? The written and illustrated version is here: https://mediatinker.com/2022/07/20/ishida-tetsuo-and-the-bird-tailed-chisel/

A surprise gift from a real boar.  Photo mentioned is here: https://mediatinker.com/2021/03/10/scat-wild-boar/

My friend, Laura, is doing a project for her Master's program and needed a variety of voices to talk about sounds. I found her questions so intriguing that I recorded my answers as a podcast to share with you. One of the sounds is attached to a sad story that I have held close for six months and only shared with Tod. 

Thanks to Laura for offering me these interesting questions as part of her Masters' project.

From Tokyo apartments to countryside kominka, househunting in Japan is an adventure due to language and cultural barriers not to mention wildly different preferences in lifestyles.  For some reason, I start new media projects when househunting, so here's my first episode of the Mediatinker podcast as I begin my search for a new place to live in Kamogawa, Chiba. 

The blog post from 2000 that I read in this episode is here: https://mediatinker.com/2000/07/25/househunting_in_one_syllable/