When I was a kid, watching afterschool TV with my sisters, we had an unwritten competition surrounding some of those classic TV shows. I am talking about the Brady Bunch or Gilligan’s Island or possibly My Three Sons. These shows … Continue reading
Once, a long time ago, I watched a Japanese TV program that was waxing nostalgic about Japanese summer treats. One of the things they mentioned was Monaka. If I remember correctly, the program was not really talking about the Monaka … Continue reading
If my coffee maker had died after it made my coffee yesterday morning, I could have then gone out and bought a new one (fixing the old one would be preferable, but it was beyond my skills). Since that is … Continue reading
As an ESL teacher, I am sometimes caught in a time warp. Of course, teaching people younger than I am is always going to expose a generation gap, but actually it is the textbooks that are a bigger culprit. This … Continue reading
Several years ago I was at the Sunfest (a fantastic free world music festival) in London, Ontario and spotted one of my favourite professors. I wanted to go and talk to him, tell him about his great teaching, and how … Continue reading
Lately, I had been feeling that my connection to Japan had started to wane. I hadn’t eaten any Japanese food recently. I hadn’t watched any Jvloggers–or at least the Jvloggers I had watched were reporting from places other than Japan. … Continue reading
I don’t know if everyone is old enough to remember Welcome Back Kotter. I suppose it must come back from time to time in reruns–but in this Netflix age, perhaps that isn’t true anymore. I watched the show pretty faithfully … Continue reading
When I was young, the most popular souvenir seemed to be the Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt. I saw them everywhere. I saw them on old people, young people, men, women, and children. The locations varied from London and Paris to … Continue reading
A long time ago, in the previous century in fact, I taught in Japan. I taught in a small city jammed up into the corner created by the corner of Osaka and Nara Prefectures. It had beautiful mountains that housed a huge … Continue reading
My ability to connect to WordPress went out last night and didn’t come back again until about one. While taking a break from blogging certainly isn’t a bad thing, I like it better when I do it on my terms, … Continue reading
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