Jackie's Japan Journal

 The sink and small counter leading to the stovetop are made of metal.  Since Saturday we have been getting small electric shocks whenever w...

 The house we are in now has two large Japanese-style rooms that we use for teaching, a large open-plan living, dining, and kitchen area, an...

 Suffering from writer's block! David suggested that I use Bing AI to generate a blog post.  I asked for a post about living in Japan, c...

 Last Friday David, Christopher and I went to the house to clear out more stuff.   Now is the hard part.  The past few months I've throw...

 Last week both Christopher and Hannah got sick.  Christopher started on Thursday, with a sore throat, sinus headache, and stuffy, runny nos...

 To celerbrate Hannahs birthday we went to a shabu shabu resturant.  Shabu-shabu is a way of cooking meat in broth at the table.  There are ...

 Today is Hannah's birthday.  21 years old. With Hannah, I'm always amazed that she has grown up.  She was born extremely premature,...