Gaijin Mama

For some reason, I haven't been able to post for a couple of weeks. It's been very frustrating, as I've been bursting with anec...

This afternoon when I went to pick up Lilia at school, she started going on about fireflies. Earlier, a teacher had shown the kids a firefl...

I recently finished reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche's novel Half of a Yellow Sun , which included the wonderful character Ugwu, a boy f...

It must be one of Murphy's Law of parenting that children tend to get sick in the middle of the night, on weekends, or long holidays whe...

It's come to my attention that a true-crime book about the murder of Shari Smith has just been published. Several years ago, I wrote thi...

Yesterday I skipped the arduous pool cleaning session at my son's school in order to attend a lecture at the Deaf School. It was given ...

So Yoshi went out and bought some mouse traps and this is what they look like. Simple, huh? It looks like something a pre-schooler could c...

My first novel, Losing Kei , is now available for pre-order at Amazon.com (and Amazon.co.jp). How cool is that?!