It's the little things...

Can you find the treasure?

Living here in Japan you learn to make do without a lot of foods you took for granted back home; hamburgers, Mexican food, pizza that doesn’t have corn on it…being a hardy ex-pat you learn to replace them with more available alternatives.  However, every once in a while you stumble [...]

It ain't all fun and games

Something struck me the other day as I watched a young Japanese girl pound away at the multi-colored keys of an arcade machine blaring loud techno music.  On screen little colored blocks floated down to the beat in a steady stream, the goal being to push the right button at the exact moment it reached [...]

Take a walk down a road and....

Do you ever get that urge to stand up, get out of your house and follow a road you’ve never been down before, that urge to see something new, feel something different and do something for the first time?  I don’t know about you but I get that urge quite a bit.  I believe that [...]

It happened again...

“It’s you!  Hello! Hello!” a loud and boisterous voice called from a brightly lit sidewalk restaurant as we passed by.  It was 11:30pm on Thursday in a small Osaka suburb and my girlfriend and I were headed home for the evening.  At first we looked around to see if they were calling to us, after [...]