Clearly this blog has been a little quiet these days. Don’t worry, we’re still alive and kicking over here. It’s just been one hell of a few years, and this blog took a back seat to just living life and raising kids. Plus there was this whole pandemic thing you might have heard about and a slow return to some semblance of normalcy.
The kids are great by the way, both thoroughly enjoying their grade school, and both with tight circles of friends. Well-adjusted.
I think part of the problem, my problem, was thinking that every blog post had to be THE post. The one that would drive more traffic, or rise the blog through the ranks. I think that time is done, and that’s for the better. It means that moving forward this will be a place where I post smaller, hopefully more frequent nuggets of thought and information.
My life in the Japanese countryside is excellent, and more time with my kids has made the last two years special and memorable in its own way. Of course there have plenty of hard-days as well. Some family members and friends as well have passed away since my last post. That’s been hard. Not being with people when they need you is a casualty of living far from your home country.
In happier news we build a house in the Japanese countryside. For that matter we’ve already been living in it for a year.
Getting a loan wasn’t as impossible as I imagined, being a foreigner in Japan. Certainly having my wife, a local native, being a part of that was rather important. And the interest rates in Japan are shockingly LOW when compared with the US.
A special thanks to those who continue to support the “foreigner living in Japan” community on Twitter, as many of you have helped immensely the last couple years. Upward and onward.
West Coast to Far East 