Let’s rewind to 2013, the year I started this website. Back then, I was working as an English teacher in
Tokyo. I had moved to Japan after college because I had no idea what I “wanted to do with my life,” and
moving halfway across the world seemed like just the thing that might bring clarity.
Eventually, I started a blog to share my creative projects, lessons as an expat, and — if we’re being honest — blog posts written from the perspective of my dog. It was pretty high brow stuff, y’all. I also started my blog because I dreaded my actual job as a teacher. I always loved teaching (more on this later), but classroom teaching was slowly sucking my soul from my body, dementor style. I had no idea that “blogging” was an actual THING at the time (“like, people do this for a living?”), but once I discovered the online universe, it was a done deal. I was straight up obsessed.
