on the edge of ordinary

Before we came to the Christian Academy in Japan I'd never heard of such a thing as a "Cross-country season". Footie season, y...

Here's a great post by a friend reflecting on the seventh month mark that we passed this last week. Seven months since the Great East J...

I had one of these for lunch. Yum!! They are called "Nikuman" (as far as I know, correct me if I'm wrong, you Japanese speaker...

One of my jobs is answering emails that come through the OMF Japan website . It really isn't a big job, but like most jobs the work load...

When we first came to Japan in 2000 with a 20 month old, we hadn't thought in a lot of detail about education. Probably a good thing, be...

I feel as though I'm in the middle of several collisions at the moment. Collisions of schedule. To start with, it is a four day week. ...

2011 in my life: flooding in our home state in January  a cyclone in our home state in February earthquake/tsunami/radiation disaster in J...