It might be too late to talk about the New Year, but I wanted to share some of my new experiences from the past few months. For the most part, I don’t really play into the ‘New Year, New You!’ [easily forgotten and rarely acted upon] resolutions. I set goals for […]
Since middle school, I was responsible for cooking for my family. Actually, it wasn’t really cooking. It was putting a frozen dinner in the oven and preparing some vegetables on the side. Over the years, I continued to cook (and attempted to bake) out of familiarity, but then it became […]
This is part 2 in the Japan 2016 series. For part 1: Japan 2016 – Tokyo Day 5. Minakami was my next stop after leaving Tokyo and I stayed at a popular ryokan, which is a traditional Japanese inn. After checking in and putting on my yukata, I decided to…stay in […]
Even though my trip to Japan (and South Korea) was more than a year ago, I still want to share this experience. For many years, I have wanted to travel to Japan. But I never got around to actually doing it. At this particular time, I was dealing with a hardship (more […]