T4 moment: I have never been able to hide my thoughts or feelings. My face shows them ALL, especially when I don’t like something. Try as I might, everyone who can see me knows exactly what I’m thinking. My husband teases me that I’m an open book, and I insist there is a shroud of …
Thank you so much for your interest in the post about depression and niacin. I have moved this article to my new blog. You can find this post here. I had two reasons for moving it. One, this was meant to be a private blog about my family as a way of documenting our lives …
Type 4 moment: Back in college I realized one day that I had very little color in my wardrobe. I decided that wasn’t normal, so I set about intentionally collecting more colors for my wardrobe. What I recognize now is I was dressing my truth and didn’t know it. Most of what I had was black, …
Since we ended up leaving Himeji earlier than planned, we got an extra half day in Kyoto. All the tourist destinations in Japan close between 4 and 6, so ordinarily getting there around 3:30 wouldn’t have been much of a gain, but since it was cherry blossom season, there were a few things open until …
After Magome and Tsumago we took a shinkansen train from Nagoya to Himeji. We stayed in a business hotel right across from the train station, and pretty close to Himeji Castle, called the Dormy Inn. In Japan, business hotels are very bare bones. Bed, bathroom, that’s about it. The rooms are tiny, and there aren’t …
We stayed the night in Nagoya because it’s a great place from which to travel to Magome and Tsumago. It was our next stop as we made our way south. We stayed at a beautiful Marriott hotel that is attached to the train station. From the hotel we walked across the street to the bus …