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

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.

' 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.'

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