I am feeling super blessed! I have had the most wonderful and adventurous move and am now living in a beautiful place. It is abounding with trees of all different varieties. My house has a big yard yeah! I’m just close enough to a coffee shop to walk there and write, sip coffee in theContinue reading “Blessings Abound”
Category Archives: A Day in the Life
Sweet Potato Thoughts
As I sit on my brick porch I think fondly back to the time when I was a teenager sitting on my parents brick porch cradling a coffee mug. Well, not much has changed as far as that habit goes. I like my coffee hot and my mornings below fifty. The cold makes me calm.Continue reading “Sweet Potato Thoughts”
Mediocre Moments and PB&J
As I sit and gaze out the window at the brick house across the street I ponder life’s great coffees… oohmpf! I mean moments. I’m thinking about how me, a farmer’s daughter ended up a thousand miles from home living a “city” life. Though I guess anyone in this city’d tell ya that this ain’tContinue reading “Mediocre Moments and PB&J”
Blase Interview—-and Psychiatry
I slide my fingers lazily down my coffee cup as I sip chamomile tea. The box said stress relief and boy do I ever need that. [Side not: chamomile is a herbal tea that does help with stress relief.] So, guess where I spent my “interview” day. At a darn psychiatry appointment four hours awayContinue reading “Blase Interview—-and Psychiatry”
Omega 3 Peanut Butter and Mixed Oaxaca Coffee
So I woke in my somewhat stifled bedroom weary with thoughts of my upcoming interview today. Which, honestly is the biggest interview of my life. I’m deep down a bit terrified;if not visibly. But, as always, coffee helps everything. So complacently I stumbled into the kitchen for the coffee pot— Hello Mr. Coffee. The conventionalContinue reading “Omega 3 Peanut Butter and Mixed Oaxaca Coffee”
Fine Balance
I am striking a fine balance between dark strong coffee, rental applications and a morbid overload of homework. Speaking of which, I discovered this little roastery on a trip, recently. Very impressive coffee and a striking label!! So, life goes on in a new state. My relationships with my friends and “intended” are going alongContinue reading “Fine Balance”
National Ice cream Day!
Did you know that July 19th is national ice cream day? I actually found that out. Funny enough I had frozen yogurt for lunch today not even thinking about the “holiday” I had missed. Haha, seems like they’ve come up with a holiday for just about everything. That’s actually something that bothers me a bit.Continue reading “National Ice cream Day!”
Fight the New Drug
I recently read an article online that horrified me.As I sat with my fresh brewed Columbian coffee in hand I sat and cried. The article was about Pornhub’s promoting Premium service to users starting in Italy, Spain, France then going to Canada and even the United States. The company commented that during this crisis theContinue reading “Fight the New Drug”
Matthew 9:9-13; Desiring mercy
In today’s Gospel, Matthew 9:9-13, we are at Jesus’s knee eating with tax collectors and sinners. He eats with them and the Pharisees question his apostles, asking why he should eat with sinners. Jesus overhears this and says, Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do. Go and learn theContinue reading “Matthew 9:9-13; Desiring mercy”
Living Joyfully
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things. – Thomas Merton The smell wafting from the oven roused me from my book as I quickly looked at the kitchen timer. The bread was done. As I lifted the pan out of the oven aContinue reading “Living Joyfully”
