www.kuraoka.org
San Diego, California
(619) 465-9375
www.kuraoka.org
San Diego, California
(619) 465-9375
Welcome to the Kuraoka family website! For the latest news, click on our weekly journal. You also can view our family photos, read our travel journals, tour our room addition, learn about our neighborhood in San Diego, and much more. So, pull up a chair, pour yourself a cup of coffee, and enjoy your virtual visit with us!
If you're new here, we recommend the following path to get to know our family: About us >> About our neighborhood >> Weekly Journal >> Then scroll down and click on whatever strikes your fancy.
Personal:
About us (our family and other
regular characters)
Our absurdly popular
weekly journal (updated at least once a week since 1998)
Archive (selected weekly
journals and family portraits from the journals)
Our room addition journal (one huge
file with photos and daily entries)
Our
virtual refrigerator door (recent photos and other odds and ends)
Family
photo album
Leo's page
Roy's
page
Mas Kuraoka's page
David Brooks's page
FAQ
Whimsy:
A simplified Frosty the Snowman
with guitar chords and lyrics
Long John Silver, advertising copywriter
Our
Daily Life: an all-purpose pictorial journal
What's in John's wallet?
Bad Drawings and Worse Poetry
Travel:
Sand Pond: still more family camping, August 4-12 2007, with photos and video clips
Hawaii, June 30 2007 to July 7 2007,
one week that spanned two months and three generations (with photos and video clips)
Disneyland
with kids, December 20-21 2006, with photos
Sand Pond:
more camping with kids ... and a dog! August 2006, with photos and video clips
Sedona, April 2006, with photos
Downtown San Diego, March 2006, with photos
Old Town State Park, June 2005, with photos
A desert jaunt: Anza-Borrego and Desert View Tower, May 2005, with photos
Solana Beach Getaway April 2005, with photos
Mülheim an der
Ruhr, Germany:
a six-week house swap (with photos and video clips; also, see our archive section for our journal entries)
Sand Pond:
camping with kids August 2003 (with photos)
Boston &
Northampton, by Roy (with photos)
Southern
Arizona: a weekend getaway
England (with a few photos)
Germany: Ten Days on the Romantische Strasse (unfinished;
with photos)
Sales Department:
“Thank You For Your Business, May I Please Have More?”, an e-book
supporting John’s Tightwad Marketing project
Know-how:
Digital Photography,
Clocks, and Watches a simple how-to guide
Morning Sickness Remedy
Checklist for pregnant moms and their partners
Tightwad
Marketing for owners of small businesses
Work, work, work:
John’s business (freelance advertising copywriter): www.kuraoka.com
More of John’s business (freelance writing): www.Profitable-Copy.com
John’s Ad Blog (news and views about advertising): www.kuraoka.com/adblog
Ondine’s business (freelance writer): www.SanDiegoFreelanceWriter.com
Ondine’s business (personal historian): www.memoirwriter.com
Our community:
About
our bit of San Carlos, a neighborhood in San Diego, California
San Diego real estate listings: Mary Anne Stevens (we used Mary Anne, and highly recommend her)
San Diego newspapers: The San Diego Union-Tribune
Links we like:
The Langworthy Family
Website
The BBC | EastEnders | Tucker's Luck
Westdeutsche
Allgemeine (Die Zeitung des Ruhrgebiets) | Learning German
(BBC)
WDR programming on streaming
video | Maus | Käpt’n
Blaubär
Sand Pond and
surroundings | Alta Ranch,
Montana
photo.net | NAWCC Chapter 59
Chordie, guitar chords, tabs, and lyrics - we wish we'd found it sooner!
Webcams we like:
Camzone San Diego: Pick from several
live local webcams, some that let you point the camera where you want! The
cruise ship one is just a "coming soon" though.
San Diego
Zoo Panda Cam: Awww, aren’t they cute?
Palm
Springs Aerial Tramway: If you can't get to the mountains, let the mountain come to
you.
Alta Ranch Cam:
Speaking of mountains, here’s Peter and Katrin’s view in Montana.
Rothenburger Marktplatz: We
bought postcards at an art show in the building you see to the right on Kamera 1 and to
the left on Kamera 2. Just around the corner is an apotheke where we got echinacea.
Trafalgar
Square: An active mix of locals and tourists, pedestrians and motorcars, with several views.
Mülheim an der Ruhr 1: Our home in Germany for six weeks. View
of the Ruhr to the North-West.
Mülheim an der Ruhr 2: View toward the South-West, toward
the Forum and the MüGa.
Köln Dom Cam: Roy and John went up the south tower!
Köln Turm Cam (interactive): you can move the camera around!
Email us:
John:
Ondine:
Frances:
Both Ondine and Frances have their email filters set to “exclusive,” so if you’re not on
their safe list, neither will receive your email. Also, Frances recently changed
her email address, so make sure her new one is in your safe list, or you
won’t receive her emails. If you can’t see the email addresses, then
you have JavaScript disabled. What the heck, you may just have to pick up the phone and
call: (619) 465-9375. We don’t usually pick up the phone, so please do
leave a message. You know, considering that we maintain a massively public family website,
we’re really sort of private people.