Category Archives: Deep Thoughts

When I was living in Japan back in the late 80’s my mom, my youngest brother Tim and his then-fiancee Erin came to visit for a few weeks. My mom grew up in Japan, so our outings weren’t all the usual gaijiin sight-seeing kind of things. Although we did some of those too. Mom wanted to go shopping, to places the gaijiins didn’t frequent. Places she remembered fondly from her youth. One of the BIGGIES was Japanese grocery stores, where she would browse happily down every aisle, looking at every … Continue reading →