Suddenly the other day, my computer just decided to stop working, entering an endless loop…

Every weekday I put the alarm at 7.15 to have time to do all the…

Halloween was not over until the Christmas decorations started to pop up in stores and…

An integral part life in Japan is obento, Japanese lunch boxes (or just bento with…

Every time I take the bicycle to the kindergarten to drop off or pick up…

Here comes the alphabet rain, said my son one day when we were playing. It…

A big patch of rain passed by and left behind 15 degrees lower temperatures. Suddenly,…

The final day of our recent trip to Oita prefecture in Kyushu, I got the…

One thing I love about Japan are the many public holidays that are scattered around…

A short little post to celebrate a short little line of poetry found everywhere in…

Even though it has been a very hot summer, we have been trying to do…

When typhoon number 10 of this year, or Shanshan as it is called, approached Kyushu…