Today was my first official day back at work!

We have made it to Osaka, and thank God for that. It was quite a journey, as Nora and I have both amassed quite a bit of crap during our month here in Japan,...

I've been spending a lot of time trying to understand what exactly is going on in Japan and why things aren't (currently) worse here.

Short post on mask hacks, as I know a lot of folks are making them at home.

A brief sojourn back to Tokyo

We climbed a mountain (unintentionally) and it was hard. But the views were great!

Some thoughts on preparing to stay.

Our first full day in Hiroshima. The weather was perfect and we won at pachinko.

When we left for Japan, I expected we'd encounter some kind of travel disruption ... but not this.

I don't have any real reason for saying that, other than Osaka reminds me of Chicago.

A rainy morning in Nara. A trip to Japanese Denny's, and musings on fire.

It's Friday the 13th (here in Japan anyway) and we're going to propitiate some crow deities then head off to Nara for some repentance.

There's a real cognitive dissonance to blogging about our jaunty adventures in Japan during this time of increasing panic.

On the inevitable exigencies of travel, the inadvisability of packing too much, and the delights of ekiben.

Today we are leaving on the Shinkansen for Kyoto. It's hard to believe we've already been here a week. This has been an odd trip; because of the coronavirus ...

Getting ready to leave for a month in Japan.

Drinking wine, reading a book, and sitting in David Bowie's ass-chair.

I'm restarting my Website. I used to have a lot of content, most of it not particularly interesting. But it's a new decade, and I'm having new adventures. He...