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Japan Trip: Food Part 2

We had Chinese food--well, the Japanese version of it--twice: once in Hakone and once in Tokyo. Both times, we ate family style and both times, it was flavorful but not the greasy and overly sauced...

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IWSG May

It's IWSG time! The Insecure Writer's Support Group is a large network of writers and we vent our frustrations and questions to the world every first Wednesday of the month. Check out IWSG here. I'm...

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Japan Trip: Food Part 1

Now let's get to the stuff that I know my best friend Nali is the most interested in: what I ate while in Japan. What is it about vacation that has you eating your body weight in yummy (but very...

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Writing the Same Characters, Years Later

I'm somewhere in Chapter Three of a draft of The New Bride of Banner's Edge, which takes place in the Keegan family/Pearl Georgian England world, but focuses on a character who did not make the cut...

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2017 Goodreads Reading Challenge: 10 Books Read!

Hey! I finished reading my tenth book of the year last night! I'm so glad I decided on a 35-book challenge this year; it makes for a gentler reading pace, especially since I'm writing at the moment...

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Japan Trip: Hakone

We got on a train headed for the hinterlands. And by the hinterlands, I mean western Kanagawa Prefecture. We got on a train with wide windows in Tokyo and rode it for about three...

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The Tokyo Bus Tour: Stops 3 through 6

Senso-ji temple All right--more Tokyo, guys! After the Imperial East Garden, we got back on the bus and headed to Asakusa, which--I have since learned--is a district in Taito, Tokyo, and used to...

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IWSG April

It's April! It should be more spring-like around here, but it's been rainy and kind of cold instead. It's time to get back to whatever it was I was writing before I went to Japan for ten days, which...

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The Tokyo Bus Tour: Stops 1 and 2

My favorite day of the Japan trip was the day we took a tour bus through Tokyo. We were on a bus called a Hato Bus, stopping and looking at various places throughout central Tokyo, and I was...

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About The Trip

I went to Japan on March 16th and came back to New York on March 27th. That was the trip. I didn't mean to be cryptic about going to Tokyo, but there were some familial circumstances that made it...

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