Into the Land of the Rising Sun

Japan and America are facing many of the same issues in terms of health care policy .  Both countries are grappling with the rising cost of ...

Back in the days when my parents first got the Internet, there was this program you could download that let you choose from vast libraries o...

As many of you who read this blog know, I love my students.  What's more, I love the outrageous things they communicate through speech o...

When you are on the outside of a culture looking in, there are often things you find strange.  Not in a "How peculiar, you drive on a d...

Elephants and Thailand go together like Egypt and the pyramids, Australia and kangaroos, or Italy and pizza.  Their ubiquity in art, fa...

"He who climbs Mount Fuji is a wise man; he who climbs twice is a fool." -Japanese Proverb Fuji-san in May A Kiwi, an Am...

"I just pooped on the tracks," She-Who-Will-Not-Be-Named said, with obvious relish.  I wasn't sure what I had done to deserve...