Nine Eleven What were you doing?

Each 9/11 brings me back vividly to the morning of the 11th. On the evening of the 10th we had just returned home in the fameous Smart Service 350,000 mile Subaru Legacy with our new baby boy-Matthew. Just figuring out what to do once you get the newborn  home was exciting and overwhelming  for my […]

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Mike’s background part II

The Shoreline Community College automotive program was very enlightening to me. I was surprised that after going through the first year of classroom/hands on training how many student’s just weren’t going to make it. Out of about 20 students I’ll bet only 3 or 4 made successful careers in the automotive industry. After completing the […]

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Mike’s background Part 1

I’ll lead in with a question I’m asked frequently by my Subaru customers. Mike, How did you decide to go into Subaru? Well, kind of a long story but here it goes. Back when I was younger I had a Seattle Times paper route. My goal was to save up enough so that when I […]

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