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Good morning, sippers! We hope that you all had a fun, safe Halloween with your family! Today, we are coming to you to talk about a Japanese national holiday known as Culture Day! Culture Day is observed each year on November 3rd in Japan, as a celebration of respects to the traditional Japanese culture and to promote the notion of peace and freedom that is declared in their constitution. This public holiday was officially announced after the Second World War. In the first week of November, Education and Culture Week is observed. Events related to education and culture are held this...

Hello there, little tea ghosts! As the spookiest holiday of the year approaches, we have been busy brewing up some witches tea of our own, along with some very cool tricks for you to bring to ghoul gatherings you are attending in the next couple weeks! Below, you will find all of these tricks and treats, along with a few tips for balancing out all the sugar that your own little goblins may be ingesting!  Let's start with what has become known as our "Witches Brew" around the tea shop. To celebrate the upcoming eerie and ominous day, but also...

Good morning, dear tea friends. I come to you today with a bit of a heavy heart as today marks the two year anniversary of the passing of our founder, Rob OBrien. Rob opened Good Life Tea in 2013 and it has been growing and flourishing since. It has become quite a large part of my life and I am eternally grateful that Rob manifested it into existence. For those of you who didn't get the pleasure to meet Rob, I will tell you that he was a man of few words, but his few words were always pertinent and inspiring. We...

Good morning, friends! I hope that you all are having a wonderfully productive week and have been able to embrace the cooler temperatures, sweater weather, and onset of true autumn. Because of these cooler temperatures, a change that we have been seeing really start to occur, as it does every year around this time, is the switch from sipping your teas iced, to sipping them hot! Here is a good place to mention that all of our teas can be brewed either iced or hot, and while you may be thinking that you love one of our teas over ice,...