Japanese Newspaper Columns

A Japanese newspaper of the city I am from contacted me and asked me to write columns in the culture section of the paper for them. They want me to talk about my life and art in Ohio. My post started in October 2012 and will continue once a month through September 2013. The image below is a screen capture of my first column. I talked about the city of Columbus, Ohio State University, Center of Science and Industry etc. centered around various Japanese connections. I am of course writing my columns in Japanese, but it really makes me realize how rusty my Japanse is getting. There are so many characters, words and phrases I just can't remember! I am struggling with an English-Japanese dictionary in my hand...