The Monday Read: Taking Time to Breathe
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. Miyakojima week 2. Still love it here. So much so that I have idly started thinking about moving here, or at least spending chunks of the year here. You can see a lot of […]
The Monday Read: Miyako Calling
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. I’m in Miyakojima for a couple of weeks. It’s pretty good down here. I first visited in June, but liked it enough to book a second trip in October! Primary goal was for my […]
The Monday Read: Life is Good
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. It’s been a busy week, but life is good. Getting out of the heat of summer has made everything better. I am more productive, have more energy, sleep better… Incredible how much difference it […]
The Monday Read: the pleasure of cool evenings
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. What an underrated pleasure it is to sleep with the windows open at night. We were finally able to turn the AC off this week (but I still have a fan on low at […]
The Monday Read: Autumn Breeze
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. Finally I can feel the hint of autumn in the air. It is no longer unpleasantly hot at night, and I have spent the last couple of days working without AC. Praise be! This […]
The Monday Read: Computer Disposal
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. Had a really fun catch up session with graduates of our Your First Ten Million Yen course last weekend. We’ve run two cohorts so far, so it was great to hear everyone’s success stories […]
The Monday Read: Post 900
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. This is our 900th post on this blog. Yikes! The first post went live on December 4th, 2013. I don’t think anyone read it at the time 😉 Any ideas to celebrate the 1000 […]
The Monday Read: the End of Summer?
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. My daughter said this last week. “I think summer is over.” Now, that might initially seem like something an insane person would say, given that we’ve had 30+ days all week, but I think […]
The Monday Read: Hobbling Around
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. Well, I am still lounging around at home being lazy this week, but due to go back to work tomorrow. The knee is surprisingly good -mostly pain-free unless I forget what positions are unsafe, […]
The Monday Read: Hospital Again
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. I had an operation last Thursday, my second one in Japan. This time was much shorter (3 nights vs. 3.5 weeks in hospital), different hospital (medium sized clinic vs. large general hospital) and so […]