Akemashite Omedetou, everyone ... Happy New Year! Did you all make it to midnight in your respective time zones? We did, though not by design. (I had done laundry earlier and the sheets still needed time to dry. Oops.) New Year's is starting to wind down here for my family at least. We did partake... Continue Reading →
Celebrate: O-shogatsu (New Year’s Day)
One more sleep until 2013! You might laugh, but in four years of living in Japan, I've never properly celebrated the New Year. Our first year, we actually went to Singapore. Fireworks over the bay were amazing but definitely a far cry from being in Japan! And for the past three years in Okinawa, we've... Continue Reading →