Hope you all had a great break! With the festival season now pretty much coming to a close, I thought it might be a good idea to review and recap some of the festivals that my wife Yoko and I are particularly fond of. The rationale behind this is that next year all of you […]
Living and Sight-Seeing in Japan: Kyoto Gosho and Its Fabulous Ikebana Displays
Hello all! Now I cannot profess to know very much about Ikebana, but it is one of my wife Yoko’s favorite hobbies and she is surprisingly intuitive and talented for it. Sagagoryu is the type of Ikebana Yoko has studied at length as a hobby, but anyone even remotely knowledgable on the subject can tell […]
Growth at Smith’s Part 2 : What I See Happening This Fall And Well Beyond!
Hello again everyone! Recently I’ve been making a fairly continous rant about the virtues of local promotion and doing the basic leg work to grow your Smith’s franchise. I admit I have been a slow compared to some other fellow franchisees in getting this job done but I made a commitment to change that last Golden Week. In the relatively […]