Do you use a wooden cutting board or a plastic one?  A wooden one might be easier to use, but bacteria may stick to it more easily.  I was using a wo ...

Over the past few weeks, We've been harvesting a lot of white radishes. We don't sell them, but every Saturday we share them with friends, relatives a ...

At school, we learned that we shouldn't start a sentence with conjunctions like "but," "so," or "and," but nowadays, many people use them at the begin ...

As I wrote in my previous diary entry, last Sunday, my husband and I went to see a movie. Since we are frugal, we went to a theater about 20 minutes a ...

Have you ever heard of the Japanese expression "食い意地が張っている"? I'm not sure what's the good translation into English, but it refer to being greedy for

Yesterday, my husband and I went to see the movie "Glory Back home," which is based on the true story of former Hanshin Tigers player Shintaro Yokota. ...

I like the commercials provided by JT. This is a series featuring  a Japanese oni (demon). One day, the oni met a bus driver and asked to the bus driv ...

As I wrote in my entry before, my memories have been getting worse lately.  On Monday, I found a flyer for a drugstore called Sundrug tucked into the ...

I was reading some English entries. I like reading native English speakers' corrections because I can learn from them. Some people correct the same

Aonishiki is a sumo wrestler from Ukrain. He's years old. He arrived in Japan in April 2022, shortly after Russia invaded Ukrain.  Today was the fina ...

I have no special topic to write about. Every day, I wake up, do housework, cook, eat and sleep. That's it.  There's really nothing going on, but I g ...

On Sunday, my husband and I went on a one-day bus tour organized by the paper insurance association that my husband's company belongs to.  The bus tri ...

As I get older, my memory has been geeing worse.  Today I went to see my sister. Before leaving home, I looked outside and saw it was cloudy and look ...

Yesterday, I sewed a curtain for the small window at the entrance. Even though I call it a curtain, it doesn't have any pleats; I just hemmed all four ...

Last Saturday, my husband and I brought back several kinds of fresh vegetagles from our farm. One of them was green beans. Since we had a lot of them, ...

"Glory Back Home" is a movie depicting the life of Shintaro Yokoto, a former Hanshin Tigers player. He passed away in 2023 at the age of 28.  He ent ...

I've been using the onions from our farm that we havested this spring. My husband loves pickled onions, so he eats some every morning. Pickled onions

Meharizushi is a local speciality of Wakayama Prefecture. It's a rice ball wrapped in pickled takana(mustard greens). Last weekend, we harvested som ...

On Sunday, my friend who lives near me and I went to see our friends in Suma, Hyogo. We have been friends since high school. The friends living in Sum ...

I have an appointment today at a different clinic than the one I went to the other day. It's rainy today. According to the weather forecast, it seem ...