One of my favorite Christmas movies is Christmas in Connecticut, the old original version with Barbara Stanwyck.  Barbara plays a food writer who writes these amazing articles about her family, cooking adventures and life on a large farm in Connecticut.  The problem is that she is a single woman, living in a cramped apartment in New York …and she can’t cook at all.

Now, I am not saying that I have been lying about who I am..let’s get that straight right now…but I seem to have a RSS feed of my alternate life going through my head all the time..You know, …read more

You know how some weeks you can fly through everyting you have to do and it all seems to flow and you feel energetic and perky and brilliant and successful?
This has not been one of those weeks.I have a ton of deadlines looming because it is the end of the month and my brain has been on autopilot for two weeks.  I can’t concentrate at all.  It seems breathing is a major chore for me right now.

I love New Year’s Day.  I am always ready for Christmas to be over (more so this year than usual) and move on into the clean slate of the new year.  I was up very late last night/this morning working on some last minute deadlines and finally dragged myself into the bed at 4 a.m.  So I am laying here,in the warmth of the flannel sheets, sunlight streaming into my bedroom, sipping the last of my cup of coffee and thinking of the year that lays ahead.
It is a good day to do that.  It is transition time, nothing happening …read more

The new poll for February is up on the side. This months question is about Fair Trade, organic, and shade grown coffees.
I am curious about how many of you know about Fair Trade items and whether that is an important factor in your decision to buy a product. Where do you spend your coffee/tea dollars and why?

I spent the entire day yesterday, with the exception of putting dinner on the table, sitting next the fire, coffee in hand and my Christmas present, Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon, in my lap. I have two chapters to go as of this morning and when I get done here I plan to wave to my family and head back to the fire and the chair. Christmas, to me, is best with a new book and a cup of hot coffee…My husband, being the insightful man of God that he is, also saw fit to …read more