Last Saturday night (February 13th, 2021), I was sitting at the kitchen table and texting away on my phone when an emergency alarm starting blaring from it, signaling an impending earthquake. As this had happened before and the result was nothing more than a brief sway, I didn’t think anything of it until everything began shaking suddenly and violently. I was downstairs while my husband was on the second floor with our daughter. I contemplated going up but knew it was safer to stay in place, so I moved under the kitchen table and waited it out. There were a lot of things going on in my mind at the … Continue reading Earthquake Preparedness in Japan with Children