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weekender, four
Being self-employed as I am, the holidays of my family tend to erupt into a kind of blur of confusion that leave me a bit discombobulated. The Kid just finished her reading week break, and we capped it off with a trip to the mountains, having left last Thursday and rolled back home on Sunday
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kiyomizu-dera
What adventure from 2025 will be forever etched upon your memory? It would be super simple sitting here less than a month after spending most of November in Japan to just write… Japan! with a huge exclamation mark and move on to the next post (heck knows these days leading in the holidays are busy
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unreal asia
Did you travel in 2025? In 1998 I went to Europe for the first time. Until that moment of stepping off the plane and riding the train into London’s Victoria Station with my giant backpack over my shoulder, Europe was an abstraction in my head. It was this place I had heard about over and
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the japan files
What excited you most in 2025? It turns out there are two subtly different terms for non-Asian people who find themselves with an interest in Japan: one can be a japanophile …or one can be a weeaboo (or weeb). Both are similar terms, but like anything we do in this crazy culture of ours one
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japan-oramas, one
November has ended, and on the last weekend of the month I time travelled across sixteen timezones, arriving back home before I left Tokyo. Weird, huh? Our flight left Narita airport at 18:30 on Saturday evening and we arrived in Edmonton at 16:20 the same day. International travel can mess with your mind… and your