Memoirs of a White Chocolate Geisha

本庄〜またね！ Well, I'm home now! That is to say I'm back in Seattle, Washington -- town of the needle that reaches SPACE and the 1962 tra...

Yesterday there was a solar eclipse that we could see in Japan! I learned that the word for solar eclipse is 日食 -- the first kanji means sun...

These two weeks have been very busy and I've had to say goodbye to a lot of things that have been constants in my life for two years now...

I sold my bike! The Yasaka JET, Megan (Leigh's successor) offered to pay me for my lovely, Dr. Pepper can-coloured bicycle! Hooray! So,...

Centipede Celebrates Independence Day; Dies The weather can't seem to make up its mind. Sometimes it's sunny and warm, and more ofte...

Michele and Zaydeh picked me up not long after and I spent the day being exhausted with Oren and Michele and Mo (my cousin). They took me ou...

I spent 21 hours at Sea-Tac Airport before I gave up on Delta Airlines completely. I was still flying on Kevin’s buddy pass and was optimist...

I spent the weekend in Seattle after the funeral was over. It was nice spending more time with Megan and seeing Laura’s best friend Graham a...

Dressed in black, we met Zaydeh for breakfast at the hotel. Zaydeh smiled at seeing us in such unusual garb and commented, “Who decided on t...

I thought that my next trip from Japan to the United States would be a one-way ticket representing the end of my JET Programme contract and ...

Local Teachers Wander into Mist ; Camoflauge This weekend I was invited by my friend, Yasuka, an employee of the Mineyama Town Hall, to join...

Track & Field Day Every year the four junior high schools in the area, Honjo, Ine, Hioki and Yoro, battle it out in track and field comp...