Impossible Juxtapositions

Yesterday was the thrilling Spectacular Spectacular at Ono High School that is otherwise known as the Chorus Competiton. Instead of spending...

For the first time this season, when I looked out the window, and it was snowing, for the very first time, I was all 'seriously Japan, a...

Slowly, gently, the new year is beginning. I like the new year. I like new beginnings, and fresh starts that hold the potential of great thi...

Ah, the ten year school reunion. I think that I'm quite glad that I'm living in Japan, and that I don't have to make the choice ...

In the day and age of the uber-fast instant messaging, right here rightnow communications world, I still find something like these cards in...

On rushes winter. Fall is briskly swept away by the bone-chilling winds, along with the floating leaves that are every possible shade from p...

Turns out I'm not so good at this blogging stuff, hey? I was never any good at keeping a journal, there were always massive gaps, and b...

For as long as I can remember I have been petrified (absolutely shit scared) of spiders. Nothing is as scary as these; not so much the small...

It's almost 1 am, I desperately want to go to bed, but my house smells amazing, because I've just pulled these out of the oven. I mu...

This post is actually several months late, and to the person who sent me this parcel of goodness, I apologise profusely. But better late tha...

Just when I thought Japan couldn't surprise me anymore, that I was completely blase when it came to 'what the fuck' moments, tha...

When you're the world's biggest scaredy cat, and you're watching Twin Peaks in a storm, and the episode finishes in a timely Dav...

So this is graduation the second time around. The same pomp and ceremony, the same 4 hours spent cleaning the school the day before, the sam...

Today's absentee count of the first years was over 80 students today. The second years are beginning to drop as well, with almost 30 stu...