The summer I turned 21 was both the worst and most memorable of my life. It was a very dry summer. T...

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Despite living in this country well over five years, I have only ridden the Shinkansen once. The ver...

Legend is one of those cult classics that you think does not really exist. The plot is problematic a...

These days, we’re living life at the end of a pandemic and the news has been filled with so many neg...

I think being in your thirties is a good time to reflect on your life. You are old enough to have ga...

The worst gift I ever received was at a Christmas White Elephant gift exchange in Africa. A gift exc...

The phenomenon of social media is, to me, one of the most interesting of our time. With the creation...

Over the winters of living in Japan, I have come to notice many things that have improved my life du...

One part of my extracurricular activities right from elementary school was volunteering. It was some...

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When I was 13 years old, I went on a road trip with my friends that began in California and would en...

In ‘Merry Christmas: Part 1’ I wrote about Christmas being one of my favorite times of the year. Yes...

Christmas is best spent with loved ones exchanging gifts and doing whatever else you enjoy doing. Th...

When I was young and living in Hong Kong, Christmas was all about sending Christmas cards to relativ...

My family is Jewish, although not very religious, so we sometimes had a small Christmas party when I...

The advice I would give first-time visitors to Japan would be to go outside your comfort zone and be...

Upon meeting someone new, we tend to ask simple questions to learn more about them and their persona...

My favorite Japanese movie is hard to pick, because I love Japanese movies in general and I like qui...