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Continue reading →: My Bicycle is Illegal in Japan
Yesterday I had a flat tire on my bike so I brought it to the closest shop, pictured here. It is at the bottom of Sendai Zaka in the Azabu area of Tokyo. I wasn’t really upset about the tire since I had wanted someone to check out my noisy…
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Continue reading →: This Is Not Your Father’s Math Homework
Tonight I watched my son, Bailey, do his math homework and at first, he did exactly what I expected him to do. He surveyed the worksheet, got out his graph paper and worked through the one main problem, ultimately creating a graph for the outcome, before reaching a final solution. …
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Continue reading →: A Quick Observation on Tokyo Life
A regular blog reader here, Mr. Mickey Tramarchi, made a very astute observation last week after I posted about the umbrella etiquette issues in Tokyo. In the past, posts he has liked have included those about allowing my children more freedom here in Japan, and issues surrounding my bicycle among…
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Continue reading →: These days in the expat community…
My friend has this theory that all expats in Tokyo who were here for the events of March 11, 2011, have some sort of latent Post-traumatic-stress-disorder. At first I pooh-poohed her idea, but as time as marched on toward the end of the school year for expat kids, I’m embracing…
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Continue reading →: Umbrella Etiquitte
In Tokyo, as in most major cities, rainy weather becomes an issue because people are out in it all the time. We don’t go from our house to our car to our office with a minimum of outside exposure like in many suburban areas. So the Japanese have created an…
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Continue reading →: A Baby No Longer
This is a photo of the Baby of my Heart, as I have always called Bailey, at age one, nearly twelve years ago. He loved boxes and would squeal with delight if he saw the UPS guy in our driveway. It never mattered what the boxes contained; the boxes were…
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Continue reading →: Siblings – Yours Forever
I write for the e-zine “A Hopeful Sign” and here is my latest post. It’s all about my brother, and how it doesn’t matter how different we are to each other; we are brother and sister and that’s forever. We grew up together, we share the same memories – and…
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Continue reading →: Japanese Bathroom Trash?
The image to the left here is from the men’s bathroom in the office of a friend of mine. On the sink, just left sitting there, is a pack of cigarettes with a lighter inside. On the pack, the building cleaning crew has left a note. Loosely translated, the cleaning…
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Continue reading →: In Tokyo, A Somewhat Typical Dog
The Japanese love their dogs. I see dogs of all shapes and sizes everywhere in the city. Often they are in carrier bags slung over owners’ shoulders or in cute little dog-strollers. Those things make me a little crazy, especially when I see the dog on the edge of a…
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Continue reading →: Pizza Strada – The Best in Tokyo (according to some)
Sources close to the writer (a very pizza-knowledgeable 12-year-old who I adore, but is not my child) insist that the best pizza in the city is at Pizza Strada in Azabu Juban. He might very well be right. The crust is thin and alternately soft and crunchy in the right…
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