Miles from Home

The last time I posted was March 5th, and suddenly it’s May.
How?! Time lately feels like one long exhale I forgot to finish.

Since then, a lot has happened.

In mid-February, I was laid off from work.
Then, I went back to Japan for three weeks—a trip that had already been planned, but ended up feeling like both a homecoming and a reset.

I spent most of my time in Yokosuka, my hometown, where everything looked exactly the same and yet… different. The same streets. The same smells. Even the same wind coming off the bay. But I saw it all with a sharper lens—maybe because I’ve been away, or maybe because the city’s been changing with time, just like me. Of course, I explored a few new-to-me places, which I plan on sharing with you in the next post!

Coming back to the U.S. after that kind of trip was like landing in another dimension.
And I hit the ground sprinting—because big news: I’m moving to Kobe.

(Yes, Kobe as in the beef. And just so we’re all on the same page, it’s pronounced [Koh-beh], not [Koh-bee] like the basketball legend.)

That’s right—Miles from Home, all over again.
And it’s happening soon. Like, soon-soon.

Since March, I’ve been in pure hustle mode: job applications, interviews, paperwork, packing, purging, and googling “how to ship books internationally” way too many times.

It’s exciting. It’s exhausting. It’s real.

And I’m not big on Astrology, but the whole Saturn Return thing? Yeah, I’m starting to believe it, especially since I just turned 28 in April… right on cue for all this chaos. Thanks, Saturn.

And during all that motion, writing took a quiet backseat—not because I didn’t have stories to tell, but because I didn’t have the energy to shape them yet.

But today, I missed this space.
I missed the small ritual of sitting down and making something out of the swirl.

So here I am.
Hello again.

I’ll be back soon—with more thoughts, more updates, and probably more Kobe-bound chaos. Thanks for sticking with me through the quiet.