I’ve been in Japan for three months. This means I’m starting my blog three months late. It also means I’ve been very busy living in the moment, as they say, which is all the rage these days and is, more importantly, something I typically have trouble doing but have become more at ease with this past revolutionary year.

Here are my goals for this blog:
    1. To write, in a not-too-serious manner (I often take writing way too seriously)
    2. To give myself a formal (and informal) place to record assorted memories in Japan. These memories will revolve around my three main priorities in Japan (and in general!): food, traveling, writing.
    3. To have a place to collect and share my pictures—more and more, I’m becoming an avid photographer
    4. To have an informal place to keep in touch with friends, colleagues, and family
    5. To create one more piece to my life in Japan, and a writing piece, no less!

I want to write with heart, and to be as funny as I humbly think I can be. And to have fun. Loads.

Inset: The start of the Magome-Tsumago hiking trail, in Magome, Kiso Valley, Japan.