2025 Year in Review
In 2024, I made a year in review post. I wanted to do the same thing for 2025. Although last year was a little harder and a little sadder, there were still a lot of good things to celebrate that I want to share with you all. Personal Life Sad stuff out of the way first. I had a lot of personal loss this year (not to mention the collective loss and fear in the world right now due to the rise of fascism, war, the state of the environment...) My sweet grandma passed away early in the year, right after I had moved back to the US from Japan. So it's been a year of grieving the loss of my family member and the place I had been calling home. But I'm grateful both that I could make it home in time to see my grandma again before she passed, and that I had a chance to live out my dream of living in Japan in the first place. Life is a mix of ups and downs, so I'm trying to learn to love them both. On a positive side, moving back to my home country has mean the chance to reconnect with...