I’m speaking at the Tokyo Union Church Women’s Society on this coming Thursday (Feb 3rd). This is a free event, from 10am until midday and everyone is welcome. I’ll have copies of my books there to sign too, or you are welcome to bring along your own copies for me to sign. Details below: Caroline [...]

Valentine's Delights from Being A Broad Perfect for singles, couples, or a group of girlfriends! (feel free to forward if you want to give a certain someone a hint or two) CHOCOLATE HEAVEN WITH THE MEAT GUY This is what true love tastes like. This is real, New York cheesecake, it is so dense that [...]

I am conducting some research for a book I am writing about Japanese men and Western women (this also includes Japanese women who consider themselves to be “Westernized”). I am looking for Western and Japanese women to answer a few questions about their experiences with Japanese men (even if you have never been to Japan [...]

After the success of the marketing seminar for schools that I held last year, I am organizing another opportunity for school administrators, staff, and even parents that may be a big part of the running of a school, to get together and exchange ideas, get support, and also mingle with a few special business professionals. [...]

For anyone inclined to contact Gentosha (the publishers of Ichihashi’s book), you can do so by using the following: Phone from within Japan: 03-5411-6211 Phone from outside of Japan: +81-3-5411-6211 Email (general enquiries): keieikikaku@gentosha.co.jp Email (comments on their books): comment@gentosha.co.jp There is a woman there, who speaks perfect English, and one of the men responsible [...]

I’m looking forward to Being A Broad’s Girls’ Night Out tonight! I couldn’t make the December one so it will be nice to see everyone and catch up on everyone’s plans for 2011. Katy tells me we have lots of new faces coming along …. New Year New Friends and all that! The Girls’ Nights [...]

I’ve been receiving quite a few emails related to my strokes, and in particular in response to my previous post about flying long-distance when you’ve had a stroke. One really interesting email I received was asking about the practicalities of taking heparin when you fly, so I thought I’d elaborate on that, and hope it [...]

Usually my husband and I travel by car between our families, but on this month’s trip, we took the train from Newbury to Plymouth. It is a lovely journey, through beautiful countryside, which unfortunately we missed because we were on a night train. Each train station always evokes memories of events in my life growing [...]

I finally joined Facebook yesterday. I’ve been really anti-Facebook for ages, partly because I think I had a bad introduction to it. The first people I knew who got into Facebook were completely obsessed … they were on it at home and at work, and when they weren’t at home or at work they were [...]