Desert Sage Natural

Back in December 2020 I ran my first Build-a-Tea project. There’d been a few preliminary circumstances where I asked for a die roll for which tea journal or which page within a tea journal to choose when working up a new tea. This time, assisted by a tea survey, I’d Continue Reading →

  I have an expansive list of ingredients, and adding new ones is one of the ways in which I keep the work of hot beverage creation challenging and interesting. It is also one of the things that allows me to finesse salutes to a wide variety of characters, stories, Continue Reading →

Today I did a seemingly simple thing. I took the paperwork inside of a hanging file folder and moved it to the top of a pile that sits on a pair of sizable three ring binders, for filing. The hanging folders are where I keep the survey data for my Continue Reading →

  The story of this tea began years ago while watching an episode of Luther with someone who, as it turns out, probably wasn’t the safest individual to intake distressing content around. There was a sequence in the episode that reached into one of the deep wells of unpleasant experience Continue Reading →

Occasionally I find myself with a blending day where I don’t have anything time sensitive to do and sometimes (though rarely) this coincides with a day where I do not currently have any Ideas that Insist on Existing oscillating frenetically in my mind. This tends to lead me toward the Continue Reading →

This year has been made of years, or so it has felt for me and for many of the people in my social circles, from the inner all the way out to the fringe edges of social media interaction. 2026 is going too fast, too slow, and is full of Continue Reading →

I’ve made a few attempts at making a SereniTea for myself. None of them had managed to do what I needed them to, be something I Really Wanted to Drink, and be things that I could consistently give myself permission to drink daily all at the same time. Raven’s Rest Continue Reading →

  Fandoms are complicated. Sometimes this is about aspects of the content, sometimes it is about revelations regarding the creator, sometimes it is about angry not fans or angry fans or… …and sometimes you have to leave one behind because of things you learn or because of things that are Continue Reading →

Years ago, back before the little blue bird app turned into an example of why billionaires shouldn’t exist, a conversation on it led to the phrase “grey green minty envy.” I’m not sure why that phrase stuck in my head so hard and so fast, but it did, and the Continue Reading →

  There are some coffees that have a complicated story. Others are almost ridiculously straight forward. The Question of Alex is one of the latter, though the ripple effect of the blending of this particular coffee has been impressive. It all started with the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire. Continue Reading →