Despite it being a traditional board game in Japan, my first introduction to Go was online back in the year 2009. An online friend of mine invited me to play and showed me a website that introduced the basics. From the start, I was hooked. I played several games, which could take from twenty...
This week has been one of the best weeks I’ve had in a long time and it is all down to clients sharing good news with me. I will openly say that I am lucky to have the clientele that I have because they all come ready to do the work. It is humbling...
Japan is known for, among other things, it’s food. But there’s a dark side to that: American food isn’t as readily available! Other foods are scarce, too, such as Mexican food, and some things you’d find at the grocery store in the US. (And in France and Spain, from having been over the past...
I considered writing this post in invisible ink to work by demonstration, but realized it would not be searchable if I do so. You’ll have to settle for regular “ink” (pixels, for most readers). Most people will have an image of magic spring to mind when it’s mentioned. This might be stage magic or...
This week’s happiness blog at Adjustment Guidance is about road trips, rail trips, and other short travel to revel in the beauty of the world.
There are several regularly held language exchange events in my area. When I first started socializing as an adult, I went to these events and made a lot of positive connections. At the time, it was nice to have a mix of people that I knew would want to speak with me: I spoke...
American politics have been really getting me down. They are so divisive and fear-mongering that it makes it impossible to feel positively about the US. It has also made it clear to me that I will never live in the US again, which is sad because I love being American. Standing in this truth...
We talk about how we entertain ourselves here in Japan and how that differs from the way we entertained ourselves in the United States. Transcript K: So lately I’ve been thinking a lot about entertainment. C: Because you’re bored? K: No, because I’m not bored. C: Oh okay. K: But I feel like my...
I struggle to write dialogue. I’m not a particularly talkative person in real life, at least with most people. And dialogue should, in theory, serve to either move the story forward or reveal it. Because I struggle, I’ve read a number of guides that promised to teach me how to write dialogue. Some of...