Posted by
carol on
May 6th, 2011
Many years ago I used to look forward to going somewhere special for a cup of tea. A nice hot cup of tea prepared by someone else just seemed to taste better than at home. But ever since the McDonald’s hot coffee court case, drinking tea away from home is usually disappointing with below boiling water and tasteless teabags.
For about 15 years, my husband and I have been taking our own tea with us...
Posted by
carol on
Apr 1st, 2011
Some of you may remember reading my other blogs about Matcha Magic and Matcha in the Morning. It’s been a year and a half now since my husband and I have been drinking the Japanese green tea Matcha every morning along with our morning vitamins. We actually don’t take very many vitamins, but I do take a blood pressure pill and a few other things like Healthy Life Harvest Aloe Vera, Borage...
Posted by
carol on
Aug 12th, 2010
I thought it would be fun to blog about people’s emotions behind their morning coffee and tea drinking. Let me say up front, that I am a big advocate of caffeine. I learned a few years ago after studying it, that caffeine has an amazing effect on the human brain.
Paul Holmgren, retired cell biology professor from Northern Arizona University, reports that “caffeine improves neurotransmitter...
Posted by
carol on
Jul 30th, 2010
As we continue recording 40 things we’ve done over the years to celebrate our 40th Wedding Anniversary, I just had to add our “Peach Trekking and Putting Up” traditions.
My first peach memory during our marriage was prechildren while on a camping trip with my husband’s brother and his wife in Alabama. We were so delighted to pick up a bushel of fresh peaches along the road on...
Posted by
carol on
Jun 25th, 2010
As we celebrate our 40th year of marriage and document 40 things we’ve experienced over the years or new things we’ve never done before, I have “number 10″ to tell you about. A couple of months ago while browsing the Apple store, I asked an employee what the most popular iphone app was. He said he thought the Words with Friends scrabble game was one of the top ones. So when...
Posted by
carol on
Jun 21st, 2010
My husband and I are both readers. That is a quality we both admired in each other when we first met. On our first date, we spent several hours talking about books we had read. We have quite a large library. We used to go on evening outings and spend hours at the local bookstore, each wandering around checking out the latest novels. Books have always been a weak spot in our budget.
During our 40 years...