While riding one of Japan’s bullet trains between Kyoto and Tokyo earlier this week … S and I employed a tried and true parenting/teaching tactic to get some substantive schoolwork done: If you write four haiku poems about ANY experience so far in Japan, you can play on the...
Years Later, A Wave
posted by J
When our Kyoto landlord asked W, H, and E this week about some of our trip traditions, they told him about what they have come to call “forced marches” — required journeys and hikes and walks through beauty or history or both. Their description of the phrase got a big laugh...
Tokyo Temple Tooth
posted by J
Since last July, our three boys have lost a total of 13 teeth. E lost our latest Wild tooth yesterday — after visiting Tokyo’s Sensoji Temple. We celebrated with ice...