' May I use your phone book? he asked the broad-beamed, middle-aged proprietor.In the rear," the proprietor said amiably, with a jerk of his heavy thumb.'

And I did not intend to live my life as a gaijin—not merely, like the expatriate, someone by definition permanently out of place but someone unwanted as well.

Mulch your vegetable garden to retain moisture and keep weeds down.

An anteater is an insectivore with a long sticky tongue to catch its prey.