There are six grand sumo tournaments in Japan every year, and Tokyo hosts three of them. This year I got tickets for John's birthday, R...

Confession. I'm scared of the doctor. The idea of seeing a doctor here in Japan scares me even more. I've been really lucky to be s...

I have a new favorite salad place - and those are hard to come by in Tokyo! While I was away over Christmas I learned that Happy Salad, our...

I've been back in Tokyo for nearly a week now, and being back feels the same mixture of strange and normal and strange-that-it-feels-no...

I can't believe the last year has come and gone so quickly! John and I are still in North Carolina, so we haven't rung in the n...

I kept thinking that it would be so weird to be back in North Carolina, but the truth is it's not. In the past year I felt a lot more o...

I can't believe it's taken me so long to write about this, but back in October Raku and I went to another afternoon tea with our fr...