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November 11, 2011

Food on Fridays: Tea Is Necessary

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I was tired, so I made tea. Though I often crave caffeine, I can only tolerate it until noon, when I must stop drinking it or risk lying awake until two in the morning. Fortunately, I glanced at the clock on the stove: just after 10:00 a.m. I had time. I spooned some caffeinated black tea into a paper loose tea filter, lowered it into the deep pottery mug, poured … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Food on Fridays, life, Not So Fast, simplicity, Slow Movement, Slow-Down Fast, slowing, tea

June 29, 2011 17 Comments

Curiosity Journal: June 29, 2011

Each Wednesday I’m recording a Curiosity Journal, a recap of the past week. Tag words are: reading, playing, learning, reacting and writing. :::Some of you have mentioned that you may begin posting a Curiosity Journal, as well. Leave your link in the comments so that we can visit and enjoy your weekly review. Reading I finished The Day I Became an Autodidact: and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: creativity, Nutella, self-discovery, tea Tagged With: curiosity, Curiosity Journal

November 19, 2010 16 Comments

Food on Fridays: PG Tips Green Tea

(smaller button below)Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love to try new dishes, your post doesn’t have to be a recipe.If you want, you could tell us your Thanksgiving plans. Where will you be? What will you eat?My point is that we’re pretty relaxed over here, and posts like that are as welcome as menus and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food on Fridays, tea

May 6, 2010 16 Comments

Food on Fridays: Mother's Day Make-Ahead Breakfast Sausage Casserole

(smaller button below)Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—it doesn’t have to be a recipe. If you just want to make up a recipe for dog food (I did that when I was about six years old), that’ll do just fine. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: family, Food, Food on Fridays, home, motherhood, tea Tagged With: breakfast casserole recipe, Mother's Day breakfast casserole, Mother's Day brunch menu, sausage breakfast casserole

March 22, 2010 9 Comments

Tea Wallets!

Look what I just got:Tea wallets! Handmade by Megan Dunham of Half-Pint House. Aren't they adorable?When Megan isn't writing for WORLDmag.com, blogging, tweeting, or directing a Classical Conversations homeschool group, she's designing and sewing a variety of creative items. Megan sells her tea wallets for $8 each (which includes shipping and four complimentary tea bags) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: creativity, tea Tagged With: organization, purse organization, tea bag storage, tea wallets, Tourist in Your Own Town

January 7, 2010 11 Comments

Food on Fridays: Tea Station

(smaller button below)Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—to illustrate, you can cite your favorite tea (or coffee, if you must) or link to a YouTube video of your son singing "I Like Apples and Bananas."My point is that the Food on Fridays parameters are not at all narrow. Think of it as a virtual pitch-in where you can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Food on Fridays, frugality, tea Tagged With: kitchen organization, morning routine, PG Tips

May 20, 2009 18 Comments

To Be Known

Yesterday I stopped by a dear friend's house on the next street over to return something, and we started to chat. She slipped inside for a minute and came back out with a glass of iced tea and a glass of lemonade."This is for you," she said, handing me the lemonade and keeping the tea for herself.Now, her lemonade is great, but I love, love, love her sweet tea. I haven't … [Read more...]

Filed Under: self-discovery, simplicity, tea

April 30, 2009 1 Comment

Tea Time

In July 2007, I posted this video I found that contrasts a calm, tranquil tea with the bustling world all around.The team of students who created it wrote this in the YouTube notes:In 1982 Larry Dossey, an American physician, coined the term "time-sickness" to describe the obsessive belief that "time is getting away, that there isn't enough of it, and that you must pedal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: simplicity, Slow Movement, slowing, tea

May 12, 2008 12 Comments

6 Questions to Ask Yourself

I like to explore why I make certain choices or feel strongly about various issues. So I find that a few questions like these get me thinking and writing and praying. Sometimes I use variations on these questions with my friends, generating some interesting discussion. I'd love to sit and have tea with you so we could explore these six questions. They're not only great … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blog, blogging, change, creativity, lifelong learning, mind, Nutella, self-discovery, simplicity, slowing, tea, writer, writers, writing Tagged With: journal, journal prompts, journal questions, journals, self-discovery

March 18, 2008 10 Comments

Kid-Hosted Tea Party

The kids knew that we were planning on a tea party in the afternoon, so as I worked on something else, two of them set the table with a blue cloth and prepared the treats. They artistically arranged Girl Scout cookies, Trader Joe's Oreo-style cookies, truffles, and Andes mints on plates and pulled silk flowers out of the storage cabinet for a centerpiece.The small white … [Read more...]

Filed Under: children, family, home, motherhood, parenting, simplicity, slowing, tea Tagged With: Girl Scout cookies, tea parties, tea party

March 17, 2008 Leave a Comment

Monday FunDay (week 7)–Tea Party

I'm a little late with my Monday FunDay post. I'm still in the post-retreat Slow Zone (sigh). Please accept my apologies. Welcome to:Monday FunDayWhat? You didn't know about Monday FunDay? Why, it's a carnival dedicated to swapping simple, amusing–maybe even silly–everyday ways you enjoy good, clean fun.Just post a story, idea, or explanation at your blog of how you and/or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: children, creativity, family, frugality, home, motherhood, Nutella, parenting, simplicity, slowing, tea Tagged With: a mad tea party, mad-hatter tea party, tea parties, tea party

March 16, 2008 12 Comments

Weekend Retreat

The retreat center was out in the boonies, as somebody said, where we had no cell phone reception. The rustic buildings were set on a vast, wooded property.The retreat planners set up a room where people could sit to visit or relax. Aromatherapy candles and vases of flowers were placed on side tables and hot water was available for tea (check out the name of that tea: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: simplicity, slowing, tea Tagged With: retreat, women's retreat

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