Tag Archives: New Years

Life In Japan: New Years 2021

Posted on January 4, 2021 by John Rachel

No, we didn’t have baked ham and mashed potatoes for our New Years celebration meal. In fact, Masumi-san cooked for THREE DAYS, preparing absolutely amazing traditional Japanese foods for our feast. Usually, we have a huge feast at Masumi’s mother’s … Continue reading →

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Wild and Crazy in Chiang Mai, Thailand!

Posted on January 4, 2020 by johnrachel

As is standard operating procedure for us, on New Years Eve Masumi and I were well off the beaten path. We certainly weren’t in Times Square. We weren’t wearing a beer guzzler cap. We didn’t do vodka jello shooters, smoke DMT or put magic mushrooms on our eleven-cheese pizza. We never even got around to singing Auld Lang Syne. Between Christmas and New Years, we spent a week in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Continue reading →

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Life In Japan: New Years

Posted on January 30, 2018 by johnrachel

Oh yes, what a wild time we had bringing in the New Year. Fasten your seat belts and savor the events which surrounded the onset of 2018 for us here in Japan. Continue reading →

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A Simple Straight-Forward Message for a Complex Convoluted Time

Posted on December 30, 2017 by johnrachel

This is about “Happy New Year”, my holiday greeting card to the world, a song I wrote three years ago, performed by my lovely and extremely talented wife and myself, here in my home studio in Japan. I believe it offers a simple straightforward message for a complex convoluted time. Continue reading →

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Happy New Year!

Posted on January 1, 2015 by johnrachel

What a crazy idea! Suggesting that people can and should get along, that we should have peace in our lives and in the world at large. But that’s just the crazy kind of guy I am! Continue reading →

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