[okazu]

November rather snuck up on me.  I am on edge and out of sorts, which tends to happen to me at every change of season.  Okazu has been put on the back burner while I work on other projects. My home and computer are full of bits of paintings and poems, drafts of e-mails and [...]

This tiny corner, my dear friends, is where the Okazu magic happens.

How many Japanese candy packages can you spot?

Eventually all my research and Chinese text books will have a home of their own, like, oh I don’t know, a shelf or something.  Right now they’re all scattered throughout the house.  It’s frustrating, what with my [...]

Looks like we’ve got some goodies coming in the mail via an old pal.  Can’t even begin to say how positively excited I am about opening that package!  Nik has been around since the beginning of okazu; it’s nice that people have stuck by for the last three plus years as I’ve tried to find [...]