My questions about Japanese questions that leave me with more questions that keep on questioning.

Join me on my midsummer plan to relearn the basics of Japanese and fill in my knowledge gaps.

A translation and thoughts about one of my favorite Japanese songs.

Thoughts on looking towards the future to make choices in the present rather than blaming the past.

Thoughts about getting unstuck when the pressures of learning a foreign language paralyze you.

Azaleas and a poem in my town in Japan.

Some different views of wild forest wisteria in Aomori, Japan.

Views of tulips fields of the past remind me to enjoy the moments in the present that may never come again.

Thoughts about cherry blossoms in my town in Japan.

A hidden spot in the best cherry blossom park in my town in Japan brings my thoughts to the forgotten past.

I learned where wasabi grows in my town in Japan.

Food culture differences represented with horse meat in Japan.