A Japanese toilet control panel, with the word "strength" misspelled.

Ramen Safari, Part II (Preview)

I swear I did not actually intend to eat a bowl of ramen every single day (save one) of my 13-day, third-time, trek through Japan. But while doing so inevitably formed an unintended spine for the trip, the actual objectives lay elsewhere.

Lantern slides from Sakura shrine

I journal pretty hard on vacation. In the past few years I’ve begun to wonder who these journals are for — it’s not like they’re going to end up in the Toronto Reference Library — given that in most cases, at most, I re-read my own writing an average of one (1) times. The answer is stupidly obvious.

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