Easter and spring is here, and it is simply wonderful. In a little while I'll be taking off to Berlin with my family for som...

My collection of paper is rather massive, and sometimes I force myself to go through the drawers, but I always end up not throwing anythi...

I have covered the fantastic place I go skiing with my family every year in blog posts before, here and here , but there is this special s...

The fact that you can make a slight adjustment to an incomplete calendar by simply adding a day every fourth year, sounds like a solution ...

The other day I taught you how to fold traditional Japanese menko and tato envelopes. And if you didn't quite get around to it the ot...

Purple Hijab Day is an international day of raising awareness against domestic violence. It is founded in the Muslim community, in memor...

Okay, so we all agree that Valentines Day is a nasty old capitalist conspiracy. Now that we've gotten that out of our systems, I was th...

As anyone who sometimes reads this blog knows, I'm a bit of a Japanophile, or whatever the phrase may be. I have visited Japan only onc...

January has almost flown by in it's own dull way. I am very busy at the moment, and have less time for blogging than usual, but rather ...

When I heard the news about David Bowie's death this morning I was very moved and truly sad, a bit to my surprise, actually. I was at w...