Some days, life goes your way. Other days, AI steals another client from your content marketing roster while your French bulldog is undergoing a $2,500 corneal ulcer treatment, and rent is due on the first.
So when times are tough, I’ve found that saying “no” rolls off the tongue quite smoothly — to fancy dinners, concert tickets, and most disappointingly, international travel.
That was, until an offer to visit Japan for the first time fell in my lap. So, against my better judgment, I said “yes” and joined a group of American women invited to learn about two lesser-known regions in Japan: Toyama and Ishikawa prefectures.
Embracing the local…










