After almost two weeks of rainy, cool and cloudy weather the sun has finally come out and it feels like spring - yeah!  I have been a little under the weather lately and haven’t kept my promise of checking out a new site each week lately so it’s time to pull out my map of […]

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I am amazed!  In the last seven days this blog has been found 392 times utilizing various search terms.  Eighty-eight percent, or 345, of those search terms are a variation of “detergent suicide recipe” or “how to make hydrogen sulfide”.  This is the result of my post titled “Bloomberg Publishes Suicide Gas Recipe” where I, […]

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Can you imagine being woken up by an earthquake and lying there wondering how bad it’s going to be? Well that’s what happened to us around 1AM this morning! It’s not like we haven’t felt an earthquake since we arrived in Japan - at least once or twice a week you get […]

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This week I am posting a quote from Secrets of Sant’Angelo, a novel by Jeff Shapiro. “Prendila con filosofia” is Italian that translates into English as “Take it with philosophy” . Secrets of Sant’Angelo opens with an explanation of this philosophy:
“philosophy meaning patience, perspective, a pinch of humor…..philosophy takes the edge off everyday […]

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Today while surfing the web I came across an article on Bloomberg that was reporting on a recent trend of suicides utilizing a gas called hydrogen sulfide. This is a serious concern in Japan as innocent bystanders have been injured by these gas fumes. As a matter of ethics I will not provide […]

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Yesterday I had my hair cut in Japan for the first time since our last time living here over ten years ago.  It was the best haircut ever, well, not the hair cut exactly but the whole experience.
My appointment was at 11AM and I was scheduled for a cut and color.  The staff spoke a […]

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As most of you know, I have started to write for other blogs.  While I want to share everything here it just doesn’t make sense to create posts that just force you to click onto another site.  I hate those kind of posts and I don’t want to subject you to them any more that […]

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