Everyone knows how to take a bath, right? 
I thought I did, until I visited Japan for the first time.
Japan has elevated bathing to an art form, complete with accoutrements like wooden buckets ...  [+]

Who can walk today
when leaves leapfrog across the boulevard
and swirl recklessly round each ...  [+]

Wind chimes ring behind our house
in random harmony,
riffing with each passing bird
and ...  [+]