Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
At Enoshima Island you can buy an entire octopus smooshed into a big cracker at Asahi Honten. This fascinating delicacy is translucent and beautifully marbled like handmade Amalfi paper. Or depending on your perspective, Enoshima octopus crackers look like a very large and surprised bug splatted on your windshield. Asahi Honten is easy to find…
You can never go back. Chris and I say this from time to time. When it’s over, it’s over. When we go back to Hawaii, the kids won’t be so little. The times we had together in Europe could never strike the same combination of covid, life stage, people. Family reunions now include a bunch…
I signed up for a bunch of the base spouse group’s activities a week weeks ago, during our month plus hotel stay. “Mom, do you have any friends?” Eloise had asked me a few days prior. “Uh, not yet, but it’ll be easier once we find somewhere to live…?” I said, probably convincingly. TODAY was…
This is Tokyo Gas emergency services. They showed up to my house with the siren wailing, causing the neighbors to stare. The men who called them had already left. He was part of the internet installation crew coming to set up our wifi. He told me in great distress that it smelled strongly of natural…
Happy New Year! Our family started the year with 8pm jet lagged bedtimes and watching the sun rise over Tokyo Bay. To say this move has not gone smoothly would be an understatement. I’m not ready to talk about it. Apologies to friends and family who have lovingly listened to all the tears and angst….
Architecture tells the story of the city without words, in a language of columns, rooftops, stone and steel. With Andree Jacquet again as our guide, the walls of the city came alive, speaking to us, revealing secrets from centuries past, pulling us deeper within the comings and goings of the city that brings us all…
Eloise wrote this for a writing assignment in class about getting lost at last year’s Trick or Treat event. One Spoky Halloween Night By: Eloise Krueger, grade 2 That night it was dusk, and windy and my best friends and I were trick or treating. I could even taste the wind and I could feel…
