Hey, so remember last week when I said I wasn’t exactly feeling the love for China at the moment because I was too cold to feel love… or sensation in my toes… or really anything?

Well, I decided the best way to rekindle my romance with the Middle Kingdom was to take a little [...]

  Ladies and gentlemen, I am back in China!

Okay, so, this is not exactly news. I returned to China over a week and a half ago.

You’re probably wondering where my latest installment of Stuff I Really Kind of Like About My Life in China is, huh? You know the series I started to [...]

I don’t have a bucket list.

I know myself too well.

As soon as I say to myself, “You have to do this before you die,” I will instantly start screaming, “And who do you think you are? You’re not the boss of me!” And I will no longer want to do it. Just [...]

When I first moved to Japan fifteen years ago, I was living in this tiny little fishing village off the coast of the Japan Sea.

The town is, supposedly, quite famous for its fresh seafood. Or, at least, that’s what everyone told me as soon as I arrived. Conversations would go something like this: [...]

I never used to think of myself as the big crybaby type.

But, over the past couple years, I’ve changed.

Maybe being so far away from home for so long has made me more sentimental.

Or maybe I’ve just gotten soft-hearted with my old age. (This is the point in the blog post when [...]