Travel

I hope you will enjoy this recipe for a Home, which combines inner space, neighbourly community, and love, with a dash of color.

I now observe, with my growing age, patterns in my life. Years go by in flashes of soft white; between snow and sand.

À mes chers amis, qui ont façonné dans mon coeur un chez-moi pour toujours.

The final piece in the three-part series about my year as an exchange student in Sapporo, Japan

This is a three-part series about my year as an exchange student in Japan

This is a three-part series about my year as an exchange student in Sapporo, Japan. Japan greets me with kind, alien arms. Tokyo is eerily silent, then overwhelmingly full of buzzing sounds. Each street vacillates between the deafness of being plunged underwater, then breaking the surface to a crash of blinding lights. I only pass through, intrigued and intimidated by this new world. When I confess to restaurant owners that I’ll be studying in Hokkaido, they all gush in awe,

The only constant in life is change.