I give my wife plenty of opportunities to laugh at my Japanese skills (or I…

It feels like yesterday when my son and I were walking past the rice fields…

I often feel like one of those lawn moving robots that have become so popular…

Maybe it was the air, its soft touch on my cheek. Maybe the light, the…

I guess we are in the middle of a big transition phase in our family…

I miss them, close ones that are no longer living among us. I have missed…

It is the middle of summer and the vegetables in our little garden are thriving…

Summer in Japan is festival time, and especially so this year. Because of the corona…

It is getting hot now. Often too hot to be outside without feeling like I…

About once a month, there is an open day at the kindergarten aimed at children…

It has been a joyful couple of weeks for our son at his new kindergarten….

Every weekday afternoon I go and meet our son when he arrives on the kindergarten…