FUN FACT: I spent a good part of my 20s creating a play for young audiences called Mukashi Mukashi. It was my baby. My weird, creepy puppet baby. If you or someone you know were of elementary school age between 2007 and 2013, and lived in either Los Angeles or St. Louis, ...Continue reading 

For the first time since I was 10, a bicycle is my primary means of transportation. Mr. Louise and I got used bikes to get around Yamaguchi because it takes too long to walk to the grocery store, and the train only runs sometimes. While at first the romance of breezily biking ...Continue

When I moved from St. Louis to Los Angeles, I accidentally threw out all of my underpants. I arrived in Los Angeles at 11 p.m., eyes still puffy from leaving my boyfriend, friends, and home in St. Louis, and all I wanted to do was shower, curl up on my air mattress in graduate ...Continue

One week ago, I started packing up my beloved little shoebox apartment in the Jordan neighborhood of Hong Kong. Five days ago, I locked the door to my apartment one last time, loaded a taxi with three giant boxes, three suitcases, and two backpacks, and sped off to the airport. As the city of

That’s what it looks like out the back door of my new apartment.This was the view out of the window of my Hong Kong apartment only a few short days ago:Things are a little different for ol’ Louise. I’ve gone from the roar of Hong Kong to the silence of...wait for it...Yamaguchi, Japan. Oh, my