Steep It Loose

I know it’s been, ahem, EONS since I last blogged. I’m making up for it with a video, though. Granted, I didn’t make the video, but I’m linking to it, so that’s gotta count for something. Remember when your 5th grade teacher announced that Wednesday was going to be movie day? It was fun and…

A Monk Sips Morning Tea written by Matsuo Bashō translated by Robert Hass A monk sips morning tea, it’s quiet, the chrysanthemum’s flowering. My last posts have been all about how nicely tea compliments things–Red Rocks and milk, iced tea and golf. Those are a few of my favorite combinations, but the one that really…

A bit more serious than my usual posts, but I was moved by last Sunday’s NYTimes article involving tea and wanted to share my thoughts. In a culture where cultivating lasting bonds over tea is the norm, US women soldiers overseas were given the task of reaching out to rural Afghani women to “assess their need…

You know those days when you find yourself so completely drained of energy that you miiiiight just collapse in the dairy aisle at King Soopers when all you want is a gallon of 2%? (As a side-note, people would stare. And they would be right to stare.) Wicka, wicka, reeeewind. Tuesday night, this kid was…