Zakkaya Tsubuyaki (too-boo-yak) Blog

I have to admit something. Sometimes when I use Japanese words to describe products I have a bit of imposter syndrome. Obviously I am not Japanese but it should be clear that I am very fond of Japanese culture. There are lots of products in the shop from Japan. Some of them do have labels in English describing what they are but some only have the product name written in some form of Japanese language characters. When I can translate them easily I do to make it easier for folks to understand what they are looking at. But often there...

There is a bit of a running joke in the shop that we have a brush for everything. We like to joke about it but the truth is, we do! We have brushes for cleaning dishes and exfoliating your face. We have brushes for cooking and brushes for making you calm. We have brushes for heavy duty scrubbing and light dusting. We even have a brush to help keep the soles of your sneakers white. In total we have 48 brushes in our inventory. Oh wait...I forgot the children's paint brush...49! That is a lot of brushes. Today on the...

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It's just another day, or is it? This morning I was reading a little history about the month of January. The history revealed that the Roman calendar only had 10 months, starting with March and ending in December. The days of January and February were dismissed as "unnamed expanses of dark days." Frankly, it kind of sums up how I feel about this time of year. It's darker and colder than most other times of year. The outdoors does not call to me nor does it need to. My garden lays dormant and there is nothing much in the way...

The holiday season is a time where social media is inundated with reminders to support small businesses. The usually list of reasons includes things how money spent at a small business recirculates into the same communities more than money spent at corporations. Small businesses give back more to the community and their customer service is often better than you will get at big box stores. Small businesses often provide more diversity in terms of available goods, products, or services and these small businesses provide greater economic impact.  But there is something else. Something I haven't been able to quite put...