Some contrasts between Japan and China

Within minutes of checking us into our hotel room, our Japanese hostess took us out for a nighttime walk through the streets of Tokyo. We had no particular plan at that point, so we just wandered around, stepping into a shop or two, at our hostess’s suggestion. One of the shops we stepped [...]

The joy of learning to read

When I was small, my father would read to me almost every night.  For a while, Hop on Pop by Dr. Suess was my absolute favorite book.  I made my father read it it to me so often that I had it memorized.  Once I crept up on my unsuspecting father and jumped on his [...]