Check please!

Time to call it quits like these leaves

Something dawned on me as I sat staring at my computer at work last week.  How it had slipped my mind after thinking about it so much I don’t know but it did.  I pulled out my wallet to check the date on my Japanese green card [...]

Blessed silence: a story of no tourists

‘Amanokuchi-whatsa,’ the word stumbled out of my mouth like a handful of scrabble letters. ‘What the heck is that?’ ‘Kochidaniamadaji. It’s a temple up in the mountains past Sanzenin. Trust me Mike, you gotta go there,’ Joe assured me. I looked at him a bit incredulously, ‘Go there? How [...]