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Our family of five shares one iPad. Our very first iPad mini was a present from my older sister. I used it almost exclusively to read books from our library’s […]
Our family of five shares one iPad. Our very first iPad mini was a present from my older sister. I used it almost exclusively to read books from our library’s […]
Growing up, I learned from my mother that anything to do with death and dying is to be despised and avoided. Death is the enemy. To die means to have […]
At first, it was a simply stated wish. “I wish we had a Nintendo Switch.” But it quickly escalated into whining. “There’s nothing to do at home!” “All my friends […]
Nothing comes close to the IKEA shopping experience. The store is shrewdly laid out so that customers are led to walk through more than 30,000 square meters of store space […]
(I cannot count the number of times I have read the handful of Berenstain Bear books we have in our home library. We love The Berenstain Bears. My son and […]
Several times throughout the night, I wake up to nurse our one month old. But last night was different. Last night, I had to put my hand on my older […]
After we learned we were pregnant, we wanted to give birth at the same hospital where I birthed my first two — The Tokyo University Hospital (Todai). However, since then, […]
I met Daniel Bennett at a symposium of the Wildlife Conservation Society of the Philippines in 2006. At that time, I was working on my graduate studies and was doing […]
We love to watch the full moon rise. On clear nights, there is a site on a hill a minute’s walk from our house that gives us a pretty good […]
Weeks before Christmas, my husband and I have been discussing how to talk to our daughter about Santa. At 9 years old, she is a year older than when most […]