OnMyMind

Live is so much more interesting when plans get changed…
Sunday we had made plans to do a beach clean-up out in front of a friends beach house on the Japan Sea. We had visited the house last week, and I was a bit shocked by the amount of flotsam and jetsam that had ridden […]

A snowy day in West Nowhwere Japan

What would be your first thought if you saw a baby Inoshishi (wild boar) in your backyard?

I have been reflecting a lot on the autumn recently, specifically as to how the fall in West Nowhere Japan differs from my hometown. I came to western Japan from the north-eastern United States, New Hampshire to be specific, and have longed for the New England foliage ever since. It is only now that I am starting to have a fuller appreciation of the autumn in my adopted home…

Each Wednesday night, we get together with friends at a meeting house for dinner. As we were leaving this week, the rain was falling lightly as we said our goodnights and walked to the car. After strapping two sleepy kids into their child seats, we pulled of into the rain. About a kilometer down the road, I noticed a small bump in the line between the darkness of the hood of the car, and the spray of the headlight on the road…

A late July bloom of Nemunoki, backed by bamboo.This was the last photo I took in West Nowhere Japan before I left for my trip to America. Now that I am back home, it seems that all of the wonderfully Seussian Nemunoki flowers have passed on. Although my photo does them no justice, […]

That gem, the title of this entry, came from an AltaVista Babelfish translation of a page on Mukade. Recently, more people have been finding my site using Google and Yahoo searches. This entry is dedicated to them…
First, let me give you some advice for when you are looking for information on Mukade. […]