I am a woman with curves. I have nothing against my voluptuous hourglass figure, except that as a newbie seamster, I have such a hard time getting home-sewn garments to fit correctly with the first or second attempts. So, with the huz‘s help, we created a duct tape dress form. It was a simple process, [...]
I can confidently say that I now consume more tea than water. Most of the time I brew up a variety of Japanese and Chinese green teas to suit my mood, but every now and then I crave something a little different. On those occasions I break out my gong fu teapot and brew a [...]
Tea and Buddhism share much of the same beginnings, spreading in popularity together around 700 AD. So, it isn’t surprising that tea myths draw upon the gods and goddesses of the Buddhist pantheon. The oolong, tieguanyin, celebrates who else, but Guan Yin. The story of the origins of this beloved oolong is as follows: Deep [...]
While tagging along to the guitar store a few months back, I fell in love with a bubblegum pink (Hello) KittyCaster. Yeah, it’s a cheap, Fender-sanctioned-Stratocaster-knockoff with a horrible pickup, but with something that obnoxious smiling at you from the guitar stand across the room, how could anyone resist picking it up? The first song [...]
I never thought that Cliff, my huz and avid Capital Grounds French Roast coffee drinker, would ever turn me onto a new tea. We had stopped into Dobra Teahouse to blow some time and Cliff found this gem on the menu: GYOKURO KYOTO: An excellent, very distinguished Japanese green tea. Its delicious taste and fresh, [...]
