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How Do You Like Your Men? | Melibelle in Tokyo
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A Foreigner Laying Down Roots. How Do You Like Your Men? August 3, 2015. August 20, 2015. This title just shouts. I feel like I could be dressed in short cut-offs, gingham top, knotted just above my waste, red-lipstick playing up flirty eyes. How do you like your men? This is the question my fourteen-year-old Japanese student asks me at the end of class, with all of the girls’ parents present, neat and prim in navy suits. My face flushes pink, bewildered at how to answer such a bold question! Men who wil...
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7-5-3 | Melibelle in Tokyo
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A Foreigner Laying Down Roots. December 2, 2013. October 4, 2015. My dearest friend, Melissa, just presented us with the disc of pictures and a fabulous slide show. Set to music. Wow, right? We all just BURST with love for this little big girl. Ps i wrote about the makeup/picture issue for our girl here. That was re the day before. on this day, she had on nada, save some Chapstick, maybe. Prom King sporting suspenders. Our home, me, rather clumsily, and caravanned by taxi to Rikugien Gardens. Not the sam...
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A Foreigner Laying Down Roots. In Our House, Birthdays Last All Year. August 25, 2016. August 25, 2016. In our house, birthdays last a month. They have to. They’re too much to get done, too much to fill! I already sound hyper and quite juvenile). In the space of one day, what can you cram without too much pressure for some perfect day, the stuff dreams wish they were made of? I may sound spoiled, but it’s just that I get the enormity of life and the miracle that each of us was born! And something way mor...
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Fill Your Beach Bag or City Tote with 3 Expat Stories | Melibelle in Tokyo
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A Foreigner Laying Down Roots. Fill Your Beach Bag or City Tote with 3 Expat Stories. July 4, 2015. July 5, 2015. Three Expat Women. Three international love stories. One book giveaway. Summer is time to let loose in flip-flops and cut-off shorts, reading the books that will mark time. Were you that student who backpacked through Thailand, or summered in The Cape? Maybe you doubled-up on college courses and only daydreamed of such travel, instead, watching. Maybe you still crave the expanse of wild summer.
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baby | Melibelle in Tokyo
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A Foreigner Laying Down Roots. Looking Back on Birth. April 13, 2015. April 13, 2015. I never knew I’d write so much on pregnancy and having babies. I guess I wasn’t one of those girls playing house or stuffing her kid-abdomen. With a pillow, pretending to nurse, none of that, really. I never thought I’d move off to Japan and have kids there. Yet, here I am, blogging about having cute little babies in Japan. Tired, restful, yawny maternity photo by Mel Willms. Here is my part in an amazing tour. Life goe...
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ballet | Melibelle in Tokyo
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A Foreigner Laying Down Roots. To the Ballet with a Shark. October 18, 2014. November 3, 2014. Did I ever tell you about the time I took my Miss sweet K to the ballet? I was the first to reply in a Facebook forum–“Who wants tickets to the ballet? Well, I do! My girl who who has been singing Waltz of the Flowers since she could first stand up,. Legs springing out in grande battement since age two, she will be my date! Yes, I really need those tickets! Yes, great, done. I tucked those tickets, with wha...
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A Foreigner Laying Down Roots. Storytime in the Air. February 17, 2014. April 4, 2014. By hour number thirteen, I was a little threadbare. We were supposed to be landing in Dulles, but now, a rerouting to Chicago’s O’Hare. All due to the super thick white stuff falling from the air. Thoughts of us roving airports, lost like a whole tower had gone out. Missing birthdays, feeling lost at sea. Yep, I get desperately dramatic when I am sleep deprived and hungry. They passed out snack bags and a thing called ...
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Every day Life | Melibelle in Tokyo
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A Foreigner Laying Down Roots. More Than a Book Review, a Way to Shine Hope. February 1, 2016. February 1, 2016. Japan continues to hurt; after all, families were ripped apart. The national police agency accounts a staggering 15,893 deaths, 6,152 injured persons, and 2,572 people missing across twenty prefectures. Buildings collapsed in the. We are nearing five years. And still, assistance is needed for the survivors. I marvel at those who help, those who give selflessly and with all that they have. ...
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Can’t Stand the Heat? Tell Me About It. | Melibelle in Tokyo
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A Foreigner Laying Down Roots. Can’t Stand the Heat? Tell Me About It. July 28, 2015. July 20, 2016. Invitation: Link to me and tell us about your neck of the woods in its fiercest heat! Bloggers may send me your link, answering this sweltering prompt. I generally stay bubbly and positive, zinging about town like a just-opened bottle of seltzer. My goodness, though! 8220;It’s so hot”. In Japanese is “. 8221; (ahh-tsu-ee) あつい or 暑い. Japanese summers mean parasols. Soda (a fuchsia syrup made from red shiso...
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A Foreigner Laying Down Roots. Ways to Wait For Baby, A Lazy Version. May 26, 2016. Besides tracking contractions with the hawk-eye of a track coach, finger utterly poised on the button of a stopwatch, there isn’t a terrible lot one rotund, pregnant chica can do. Sure, there is going for the occasional walk and wishing Tums worked a little more, but there isn’t. Here are some of the other, very academic, very holistic things I do. Lay down a lot. Take off polish and repaint nails. Do the girly stuff.
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