Since spring our son has been practicing for this year’s piano recital held yesterday at…

One summer project I had been planning for my son and me this year was…

I had been a little bit wary about long summer days too hot to be…

I start where I finished the latest post – the best thing about Fukuoka in…

Summer holidays – many of the most fond memories I have from my childhood are…

There is something special about summer – the heat, the breeze from the ocean, from…

Thursdays are ballet days, and when my son has his lesson I have a weekly…

The mountain Raizan and the Sennyoji temple lying on the mountainside – I feel strangely…

As I wrote about last week it has been raining a lot, and the rain…

We have been closely following the successes and disappointments of our two home teems during…

Our home is lying at the intersection of city and wilderness, but sometimes when I…

We have come to the next chapter in our Star Wars themed household – building…