Vacation in Ghana
As you’re reading this, Ryouske and I are in Ghana visiting my parents. This is Ryouske’s first time in Africa – and the first time I’ve visited them there in almost 10 years (wow, time flies!). Most...
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9 Things we LOVED our first week in Ghana
Ryosuke and I have been in Ghana for a bit over a week now – and it’s been a very interesting (and fun!) trip. There’s so much I want to talk about and not enough time so I’ve decided to share with...
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8 MORE Things we LOVED in Ghana (highlights from our second week)
Last week, I wrote about 9 things we LOVED our first week in Ghana, which ended up being more popular than I thought I would be. Happy surprise. A lot of people who follow this blog do so because...
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The importance of communication: a story on effective negotiation
Earlier this month, Ryosuke and I sat in on a business class at Ashesi University (one of the only liberal arts universities in Africa). We’ve been doing this a lot recently, which has made both of us...
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I (still) get hate mail because I married someone who isn’t white
We all know the internet is full of strange, unhappy lurkers who pop up every once in awhile to spew hate and then disappear back into the folds of the internet. I got my first horrifically racist...
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7 (final) things we LOVED in Ghana
And this is the final Ghana-related post! Unless, of course, I decide to do some actually helpful travel-blogging style posts about Ghana in the future which is on my list of things to do but so are...
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8 Useful Japanese Words & Phrases you DON’T Learn in Class
I moved to Japan with a couple years of Japanese under my belt (after having taken a couple semesters of Japanese languages classes at 2 universities in America and one in Tokyo) and an annoyingly...
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丸亀製麺 (Marugameseimen) Udon – Cheap, Delicious, and Fun!
Ryosuke and I have been doing an absurd amount of travel recently – some for work and some just for fun. There are numerous benefits of travel (evident on the half a million or so articles and book...
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Hi my name is Grace and I make my husband uncomfortable by how many pictures...
I take a lot of photos. Fun fact: every photo that appears on this blog is either a photo I took or a photo someone else took (typically with my camera) of me. I like taking photos.
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Hikone Castle: A fun day trip in the Shiga Prefecture
I’ve been to a lot of castles in Japan. Some I’ve written about (like Matsumoto Castle, back in 2013) but most end up in the thousands of backlogged photos I have optimistically squirreled away...
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Registering your Marriage in Japan (if you and your Japanese partner were...
One of the first things I learned when Ryosuke and I moved to Tokyo (shortly after our wedding in Texas) was that apparently our marriage was not actually valid in Japan (yet). We had a beautiful,...
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Updates!
Seven months ago, I posted this update announcing (among other things) that I wasn’t going to be doing comics on this blog anymore. And would be focusing on my quality content over quantity. By...
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Comic: Baby Logic
This happened the last time we visited our inlaws: Poor Ryosuke. I feel so bad for him – but everyone in his family thought this was the funniest thing ever.
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Build your own delicious fish bowl at the Aomori Furukawa Fish Market (青森魚菜センター)
Aomori has fresh fish. I mean, the city is right on the ocean so that’s not exactly a surprise, but still… Backing up a bit, I spent the weekend in Aomori city visiting one of my best friends from...
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I think we’re becoming minimalists?
In early May, I was browsing TEDx talks on YouTube while drawing comics and came across one that changed my life: It was about minimalism. I knew the buzzword “minimalism”… but only to the extent that...
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I broke my blog’s comment section…
I messed up. And this would all be easier if I knew exactly HOW I messed up… but it’s been almost 24 hours and I still have no idea. You might have noticed on the post I published yesterday about...
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COMIC: Doing my best?
When we first started dating, my husband didn’t understand my snark. Like he understood the concept of sarcasm (and could pick up that I was being sarcastic a solid 60% of the time). But there were a...
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Garyu Sanso – Relax at a Breathtaking Villa (Things to do in Ehime...
Garyu Sanso is a stunning cottage in Ozu city (Ehime Prefecture) and a piece of architectural genius. It is also one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited in my entire life. It is composed...
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Comic: A poem I wrote in the Shibuya station bathroom
At this point, I ought to know better than to try to use public restrooms at any of the “fashion spots” in Tokyo on the weekend. I wrote this little “poem” on the back of a receipt while I was waiting...
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Top 10 Things to do in Miyajima, Hiroshima
I just got back from a week long trip through Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Ehime. One of the (many) highlights of the trip was the famous island of Miyajima. Why is it famous? Well, mainly because of the...
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