BlogHide Reblurtsboxcarblue in # actifit • 2 yr. ago • 1 min readMy Actifit Report Card: August 17 2024After 24 hours in transit, I’m not sure where exactly my steps came from, but after running from train to train and plane to plane, they’ve added up. I’m looking forward to getting to my final destination. This report was published via Actifit app ( Android | iOS ). Check out the original version here on actifit.ioboxcarblue in # actifit • 2 yr. ago • 1 min readMy Actifit Report Card: August 9 2024I’m happy to say that I’ve become a published poet. For the first time ever, a magazine accepted two of my submissions, and only a day after I submitted them. I think that kind of turn around is pretty unheard of in the world of writing. Today, coincidentally, I took my kids on a little trekking adventure to find the home of Ryokan, a Japanese…boxcarblue in # actifit • 3 yr. ago • 2 min readMy Actifit Report Card: January 4 2024I spent the day walking slowly and carefully around my neighborhood, checking the old brick and rock walls in front of empty houses and scouring the streets for damage from Monday’s earthquake. Though quite removed from the epicenter, less than five kilometers from my house, there was considerable damage: large sinkholes, collapsed houses…boxcarblue in # actifit • 3 yr. ago • 2 min readActifit Haibun: November 5 2023Walking through the city, my one-year old son asleep on my back, I’m surprised to see small changes here and there. The long time American rock bar on the second story of a small building that was a favorite place of an old colleague of mine, a place that I always meant to visit one day, closed. Another empty store front further down the road.…boxcarblue in # actifit • 3 yr. ago • 3 min readMy Little Litter BugFrom my son, I want explanations that I, at his age, could never have given. As my children get older, I think a lot about what kind of a kid (and young adult) I was. I wasn’t a bad kid. I stayed out of trouble. That said, the only real reason that I stayed out of trouble was because I was lucky and didn’t get caught doing the…boxcarblue in # actifit • 3 yr. ago • 1 min readMy Actifit Report Card: April 23 2023I rarely check my Actifit app these days, but today, after walking the baby around the block a few times, and after escorting my son to the local soccer stadium by bike and then meeting him there afterward to escort him home, it occurred to me that, just maybe, I had accumulated 10,000 steps or more. And I had. Pictured above is one of the…boxcarblue in # actifit • 3 yr. ago • 1 min readMy Actifit Report Card: April 1 2023It’s been a while since I’ve had a 10,000 step day. There are a lot of reasons why, one of the main ones being that I often don’t carry my phone with me throughout the day. Another being that I don’t get out for extended walks much these days. Today, however, was different. The weather was beautiful and the cherry trees were in full bloom and…