Comic: I came in like a Wrecking Ball
Ryosuke has the weirdest taste in music. He gets most of his new music from me… but every once and a while, he finds his own stuff, gets obsessed, and sings it non-stop for days on end. His most...
View ArticleFurry Friends and Fantastic Food: The Sakuragaoka Goat Cafe in Shibuya...
The first time I heard of the Sakuragaoka Goat Cafe in Shibuya, I didn’t believe it was real. I’ve been to my share of rabbit and cat cafes in Tokyo, but a goat cafe? I couldn’t picture that. “If there...
View ArticleComic: Well, I missed THAT Memo…
I think one of my biggest culture shocks when I came to Japan, oddly enough, was beach etiquette. Growing up in Texas (and then in Ghana), I spent a lot of time at the beach or outside in the sun,...
View ArticleComic: Make It Rain!
Ryosuke and I started dating in one of my “awkward phases” (to be fair, there were a lot of them). Early on, I watched some movie (or something) where the character used “Make it Rain!” I thought it...
View ArticleGuest Post on eTramping: How to Travel in Tokyo, Japan for Less Than $25 a Day
Agness at eTramping.com published my guest post “How to Travel in Tokyo for Less than $25 a day.” I’m a long-time reader (and avid) fan of her blog – that documents how to travel on a budget. Most of...
View ArticleThings I Love about Japan: Conbini (コンビニ / Convenience Stores)
Japan is the land of convenience. You can schedule exactly what day and time you want your packages and heavy furniture to arrive (if you order online), train schedules are accurate to the minute, and...
View ArticleMy Kickstarter Campaign to Publish my First Comic book starts Tomorrow!
Hi everyone, It’s been a long time coming, but I am pleased to announce that my Kickstarter.com (crowd funding) campaign to fund my first comic book will start in less than 12 hours (at midnight, on my...
View Article“My Japanese Husband Thinks I’m Crazy: The Comic Book” is (finally) up and...
I am pleased to announce that my self-published comic book “My Japanese Husband Thinks I’m Crazy: The Comic Book” is officially up and running on kickstarter.com! Order “My Japanese Husband Thinks...
View Article5 Things I did NOT expect would happen before I turned 22
As of today, I am one year closer to the age I lie and tell people, when they ask how old I am at meetings, networking events, and interviews. I just turned 22. I am sad to admit that I am actually...
View ArticleComic: The “Walk of Shame”
It looks like I do the “walk of shame” back to my own apartment every day at 7:00am, since I typically walk Ryosuke to the station in the morning. I swear, it’s going to be a lot less awkward once it...
View ArticleCoca-Cola Soy Milk: Weirdly Gross Japanese Drinks
Living in Japan is interesting, to say the least. I have good days and bad days – but never boring days. As anyone who has spent significant time on the internet (or you know, actually lived in Japan)...
View ArticleComic: Good Foreigner!
One of the things I love about living off the Keio Line in Tokyo is the fact that it’s usually not very crowded, especially if I take a local train. So, if I’m tired, I can just wait a couple minutes...
View ArticleGuest Post – What’s That Gaijin Doing in a Wedding Kimono?
This week’s guest post comes from Melissa Suzuno, who shares about her experience being the white bride of a Japanese man, at a traditional Japanese wedding ceremony! She writes: We pulled up to the...
View ArticleComic: Climbing Mt. Fuji
Last summer, Ryosuke and I climbed Mt. Fuji with his dad and a whole troupe of police officers (Ryosuke’s dad is a semi-retired police chief/official). It was Ryosuke’s dad’s 16th time climbing Mt....
View ArticleComic: Japanese TV Programs that teach “Gaijin” how to do things
For some reason, Japan has an absurdly high number of TV programs where the premise is watching foreigners do random things. Why? I have no idea. There is this huge market in Japan for following...
View ArticleHow to go “Blueberry Hunting” in Japan
One of Ryouske and my many hobbies is “hunting” (狩り-ing) fruits in Japan. What I mean by that is we love going to all you can pick, all you can eat fruit farms. In Japan, “all you can eat” cherries,...
View ArticleTsukuba University Pocket Survival Guide (everything you need to know and...
“Home” (the lab where I did research for a year) I’m a Biology major from the University of South Carolina, and my exchange period at the University of Tsukuba was from April 2013 until March 2014. I...
View ArticleComic: To see what someone is afraid of losing, look at their camera
I was killing time before work on Tumblr (yeah, I’m one of those people) and I saw this short article with the premise “to see what someone truly values in life and is afraid of losing, look at what...
View ArticleWhy I Chose to Leave Korea (Our Happily Ever After)
Today’s guest post comes from Cate Han, from the blog “Oppa and Me” where she chronicles her life with her husband (who is Korean) through blog posts and comics. She writes: I met my husband in 2011....
View ArticleComic: “Chatting with the in-laws”
I’m joking. Really, my Japanese isn’t that bad. I try to call Ryosuke’s parents once a week to chat (or just send them a letter, which I prefer because it’s a lot less confrontational and awkward)....
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