Archive for: Sandy

In Hawaii, I remember we spent a lot of time on the beach and in the water. As the picture shows, she was my security.

I have other pictures with the Japanese nanny. My faint recollection is that my mother lived was living a life without hard work, problems or worries on this closed military base. She had servants for the children, and a busy social agenda. Sandy was getting old enough to look after her brothers, something she did for the next 10 years. Many of my childhood memories are of Sandy, and not of my mother.

Although we lived on a US military base, we had some connection with local Japanese culture.

In Novato California, I think dad is already in Japan. I am about one year old, and soon we will take a boat to Japan via Hawaii. Apparently, flying was not an option.

Sandy is in 3rd grade, 8 years old.

This is probably the summer before I was born, when the family was moving to Novato, California, where I was born.