Daily Life / Play October 27, 2015 Kawagoe Festival 2015 Last fall, we enjoyed a day at the Kawagoe Festival, the largest and oldest festival in our little slice
Daily Life May 20, 2015 Navigating by Star(bucks) Finding new adventures based on their proximity to Starbucks seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
Daily Life April 23, 2015 Fighting For You! Election Season in Japan It's election time in Japan. Check out some of the local candidate posters.
Daily Life January 13, 2015 Sunday Surprise A Sunday music performance turns into a special day with our neighbors.
Travels November 25, 2014 Kyoto: Fushimi Inari and Kiyomizu-dera Day 3 of our Kansai adventure takes us to Kyoto, where we visited Fushimi Inari Taisha and Kiyomizu-dera, one of Kyoto's 17 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Daily Life October 20, 2014 Odds and Ends School is back in session, so October has been about settling back into routine and planning the next round
Daily Life October 7, 2014 How Do You Say… I recently started reading a book called The Japanese Have a Word for It. Among other things, it discusses the
Daily Life September 19, 2014 Sitting on the Sidelines Watching from the bench and getting into the game.
Daily Life August 30, 2014 If Only Somebody Had Told Me… If someone had told me these things about Japan, what would I have done differently?
Daily Life July 8, 2014 Tongue Tied: Adventures in Japanese I went to the grocery store today. This isn’t unusual. I shop for groceries every couple of days. We