Tadaimatte

 Yikes, it's been a while! I'm so sorry not to have much to share these last few months - or rather, I have tons, but have been so c...

Well, it's been a tumultuous 8 months, and with the absolute tanking of my industry, yours truly is back at her computer full-time.  Doi...

Something was holding me back for a long time, but you know what? I decided, a ridiculous ten years  later, that I was going to put this out...

Prose They said I would have my own empire to stand over, and it was true; for no one stood closer to the sun than I. When I came ...

One of many. Yesterday, as I went out to my relatives' place for Thanksgiving (Canadian Thanksgiving is the second Monday of Octobe...

コリンク My students at 〇〇 High School tended, for the most part, to be very intelligent and eager to learn. This is not at all indicati...

The Pepsi NEX summer life Here in Toronto, our heat wave has finally broken, or so my roommate tells me - my response was "what he...

This is the third in a series of posts about Mount Fuji. Lies. We were back in Tokyo and barely 24 hours recovered from the fir...

This is the second in a series of posts about Mount Fuji. Mount Fuji is divided up into stations ranging from the numbers one to ni...

This is the first in a series of posts about Mount Fuji. Mount Fuji as viewed from Hakone "Climbing Mount Fuji" was n...

I love this quote! So many of my  misadventures  in Japan turned into unforgettable  stories . Not that anyone wants to be held accountab...

Not cookie ingredients. After about a month in Japan, the glamour of eating milk cakes, Meltykiss and Pocky all the time was starting...