March 3rd is the Doll's Day in Japan.  People celebrate all the children's good health and hope for their life-long happiness.  We...

I'm a big fan of Yuzuru Hanyu, Ice Prince of the figure-skate world.  He couldn't win his third gold medal in the Beijing Winter Olympi...

All of you must know Ed Sheeran, one of British top singers.  I just thought he was a talented special person, an inborn super-star.&nb...

  I was introduced a wonderful book, "Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook."  As the title shows, Self-Compassion means to accept what...

I learned from my mindfulness mentor, that a highly respected and popular Japanese poet, Miyazawa Kenji's poem "Unbeaten by Rain" exactly sh...

It's been a while since a tidying-up based life style started to come in.  You can find so many books about how to tidying up.  Ko...

Devotion is like fire, it has a magnetism, a warmth like fire. When the atmosphere is so cold that our body is chilled, we like to turn to t...

Have you ever had Taiwanese tea?  Taiwanese tea leaves are made into small balls and they swell up in hot water.  The tea smells g...

For the new year of 2022, I do hope we can go to any place we want to and see our loved ones, together with many of our friends, whenever we...

These are the words from Alice Herz-Sommer, (1903 –2014), who was a Holocaust survivor.  She answered this way in the interview sh...

I cannot help thinking that something great draws the line between life and death...A fire that broke out at a building in western Japan's O...

I failed to bake homemade gluten-free bread more than once.  It was too sticky like a Japanese rice cake and not tasty at all......&nbs...