5 Japanese Home Remedies for a Cold It’s holiday travel, cold/flu season. Coming down with a cold is never fun, but it’s especially miserable if you’re on the road, away from home. Noises are too loud, lights are too bright, and everyone is on your nerves. You know the feeling… I got the Worst Cold […]
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Mercury is RETROGRADE.
Some people ignore the astrological phenomenon when the messenger planet of communication, travel, and electricity seems to move backward. Some laugh it off, some dread it as a time of disruption. Me? I welcome it. When Mercury goes retro, I embrace activities with the prefix “re-“ like rethink, revise, remember, and— REFLECT It’s the one-year […]
Don’t do this in Japan!
“The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.” — a Japanese proverb Japanese society is full of rules. Rules explicitly stated, and rules that are just in the air. When I moved to Japan, I unknowingly broke every rule. At first, people cut me some slack — I was a foreigner, fresh off the plane. […]