Come into an MK's Kitchen: HERE GOES NOTHING

Sunday, August 10, 2025

HERE GOES NOTHING

It is Nov. 9, 2024. I have found, in Daddy's study, some e-mails from 2001-2003 that were lost in this blog. Altho' they would be read most enjoyably when surrounding circumstances could be known--and it is fairly impossible to ascertain all the details of what happened over twenty years ago--even having these posts without that background information is better than having nothing at all, so I decided to get this started again plus add present journaling to it, so there will be a distinct break between the writing of a mother, in mainland Japan, with two young children and now me, in her 60's, back in Okinawa, but "here goes nothing," as they say.

About Me

Name: Life in Koriyama

Location: Tengan, Uruma-Shi, Okinawa-ken, Japan

I am an MK (missionary kid) and mother. I grew up in Okinawa to missionary parents, a Japanese Canadian and a Japanese American from Hawaii. My mother began missionary service in 1950, Dad in 1955. So I grew up speaking in Japanese in church but studying in English in a school started for missionary kids. My husband is Japanese (from Koriyama), and both of my children, born in Koriyama, speak only Japanese. We moved to Saitama after the earthquake of 2011. My parents have gone to Glory, and my daughter is now a mother--which makes me a grandmother! She, her husband, Naoki Takahashi, and my grandson Yusei, live in Toda, Saitama. My son has quit his job and lives at home with his parents. We (me, my husband, my son) moved down to Okinawa in September 2024.