How many blogs have I started over the years?!

I always write about things that are important to me. This blog is about veganism. Telling you about some of my past and current blogs will be my self introduction.

I wrote a blog in the early 2000s called Better Puppy Buying. It was about the problems that occur when people buy puppies and kittens from pet shops and puppy/kitten mills. When I moved to Japan from Canada in the 1980s, I was saddened that the pet culture was so far behind the west, where pet shop sales of puppies and kittens was already banned. But nobody at all read the blog and after 100s of hours work, I gave up. Nowadays I run puppy and kitten pet import businesses that put buyers in long-term contact with ethical breeders overseas. The communication between them is great for Japanese pet culture.

Probably my most valuable blog is professional. I’m an English teacher working at several universities in the Nagoya area. I also own private English schools in Gifu Prefecture. Blogging about education helps me clarify my ideas. The blog is at one of my private school’s website, SOLE Japan.

Another blog I started last year (2024) is about coffee culture. I’m an amateur coffee roaster. I absolutely love coffee, and I love talking about it too, so I started offering English lessons to coffee professionals and hobbyists. You can read that blog here.

The coffee venture inspired me to start ヴィー英. I want to talk about vegan topics too. I’ve been a vegan for 10 years. Before that, I was a vegetarian for 7 years. So often, people want to argue the ethics of eating meat or discuss my decision to become plant-based. The conversations are repetitive and linguistically they are fairly easy to teach.

I hope you enjoy reading my blog(s) and if you want vegan-related English lessons, feel free to contact me!