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104 — January 2021
True Names, True Walks
103 — January 2021
Welcome Back to Our COVID Loop
102 — December 2020
The Year in Walking, Ridgeline 2020
101 — December 2020
Them Post-walk Blues
100 — December 2020
Nara, Wonderful Nara
099 — November 2020
Six Tōkaidō Moments
098 — November 2020
COVID-19 and Walking Japan
097 — November 2020
Walking Mode
096 — November 2020
Housekeeping
095 — October 2020
Come Walk With Me
094 — October 2020
Kissa, 2nd Edition
093 — October 2020
Prepping for a Big Tōkaidō Walk
092 — October 2020
Monkeys, Literature, Food, and Walking
091 — October 2020
Self-Improvement and the Big Walk
090 — September 2020
Disaster, Averted?
089 — September 2020
Long Walk Thinking
088 — September 2020
Photos: Book Machines
087 — September 2020
Kanazawa, Clear Nodes
086 — August 2020
Summer Walks
085 — August 2020
Karuizawa
084 — August 2020
A Tiny Celebration
083 — August 2020
Kissa by Kissa by Book by Launch
082 — July 2020
No Fly Walk Zone
081 — July 2020
Fish & Chips
080 — July 2020
A Walk in Griffith Park
079 — July 2020
A Famous Journalist
078 — July 2020
Nagano, 125 Years Ago
077 — June 2020
A Book About Kissa — Part 5
076 — June 2020
Walking the Inland Sea of Japan
075 — June 2020
A Book from Pizza Toast — Part 4
074 — June 2020
A Walk, a Protest
073 — May 2020
A Book from Pizza Toast — Part 3
072 — May 2020
A Book from Pizza Toast — Part 2
071 — May 2020
A Book from Pizza Toast — Part 1
070 — May 2020
Kodomo-no-hi
069 — April 2020
Walking Shōwa Tokyo
068 — April 2020
A Very Big Walking Website
067 — April 2020
A Year of Walking, and Then Not
066 — April 2020
Consider Joe Pera’s Gait
065 — March 2020
Walking Nan Shepherd’s Mountain
064 — March 2020
Textures Along a Quarantine Path
063 — March 2020
Walking in the Age of Corona
062 — March 2020
The Silver Mine with the Dog
061 — March 2020
Walking the Hagi Ōkan
060 — February 2020
So Now You Own a Kissa
059 — February 2020
A Talking Horse
058 — February 2020
A Walk is a Tool and a Platform
057 — February 2020
The Dreaded Membership Issue
056 — January 2020
Responses to SMSs Part 4
055 — January 2020
The Rigor of Process
054 — January 2020
Photos: Ise-ji Objects
053 — January 2020
Obama, City of Saba
052 — December 2019
Pizza Toast Tales: Alps
051 — December 2019
Pizza Toast Tales: Thompson
050 — December 2019
Pop-Up Highlights
049 — December 2019
That Floating Feeling
048 — December 2019
Do You Drink?
047 — November 2019
Pop-Up Walk
046 — November 2019
Photographs and Frames
045 — November 2019
My Kingdom for Bread
044 — November 2019
A Billion Billion Steps
043 — October 2019
How to Walk and Talk
042 — October 2019
Cocoon of Sleep
041 — October 2019
Typhoon Stroll
040 — October 2019
Oze National Park
039 — September 2019
A Review of a Bed — Part 2
038 — September 2019
A Winter Walk
037 — September 2019
Responses to SMSes — Part 3
036 — September 2019
Postcards from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
035 — September 2019
Soviet Horse Race
034 — August 2019
SW945: The Sound of a Walk in Japan
033 — August 2019
Travel / Walking Gear
032 — August 2019
Walk as Public Talk
031 — August 2019
Country Texture, City Texture
030 — July 2019
Walk vs. Hike
029 — July 2019
A Review of Beds — Part 1
028 — July 2019
Responses to SMSes – Part 2
027 — July 2019
Walking, Habits, Systems
026 — July 2019
Responses to SMSes – Part 1
025 — June 2019
Ascetic Pants
024 — June 2019
Old Whiskey Shoes
023 — June 2019
Walk and Transcribe
022 — June 2019
Stillness (sorta)
021 — May 2019
The Unresolved Walk, the Best Walk
020 — May 2019
Special photo edition: Didn't Die in the Mountains
019 — May 2019
Root Appreciation
018 — May 2019
That Shinkansen Whoosh
017 — April 2019
End of an Era
016 — April 2019
Scale
015 — April 2019
Inoh Tadataka and the Tools of a Walk
014 — April 2019
The Curious Incident in the Bath in the Day-time
013 — April 2019
Walk Rhythms, SMS Publishing
012 — March 2019
Boredom and the Long Walk
011 — March 2019
A Few Feet Above the Earth
010 — March 2019
Flawless Mechanisms
009 — March 2019
Something Like a Scent
008 — February 2019
Charcoal
007 — February 2019
Cycles, Circuits, Collisions, Colliders
006 — February 2019
The Cafe With a View of the Waterfall
005 — February 2019
Ferociously Scary Things
004 — January 2019
Isobars
003 — January 2019
Zero milestone
002 — January 2019
Country lines
001 — January 2019
An endless, gritty, very spitty walk
000 — December 2018
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