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the alley 25 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
I've written about The Alley in the past, here and here. On the day that Satoshi left to go back to Japan, I took him to have lunch here because he hadn't tried them. He was amazed that there was a ...
monkey pod kitchen 24 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Thank you for all of your kind comments and emails. I really appreciated them. We are taking things one day at a time. I'm glad that Satoshi was able to come to send off Mom. While he was here, one ...
saying goodbye 17 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
"No one wants to hear that their hero has cancer" starts off a commercial here in Hawaii...so true. For nearly a year and a half, my mom fought her pancreatic cancer as hard as she could, living past...
hiatus 6 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
I know I just came back to Osaka, but the "game plan" has changed. If you've been reading this blog you'll kinda know why. By the time this post uploads, I'll be in Hawaii. Just wanted to tell you t...
on the lanai 5 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Here's the soybean I planted...it's getting bigger. The plant next to it, I think, is parsley... I think this is kale. Here is another look at it from above... This is the chard/beets... And here...
dammann freres lumiere 4 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
There is a little tea room in the Umeda Hankyu department store called Dammann Freres Lumiere. They serve Dammann Freres' teas as well as serve lunch and sweets. Kazumi took me there the other day f...
foodie wednesday in kobe 3 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Wednesday I was supposed to meet up with a friend, but had to change plans because she had a bout of anemia. So, instead I went to Kobe to pick up my sample of Mariage Freres' summer tea, Violetta. ...
lei can ting 2 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
We've eaten at Lei Can Ting several times, but I guess I've never posted about them. It's not that their food is bad, I think their food is pretty good. The other day we had lunch there, it was one ...
caffera 1 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
I liked how just a sip turned this cappuccino art at Caffera into a heart. Made me smile, hope it made you smile too.
trompe l'oeil 31 Jul 2013 | 08:00 pm
There is a huge trompe l'oeil (optical illusion or what the Japanese call trick art) display at the Osaka Station. To get a nice view of it you need to go up to the 7th floor and look out over the "T...
