Like many popular drinks, tea caters to a wide spectrum of tastes. Those venturing into the world of tea for the first time tend to pick teas that are sweet or teas that do well with the addition of milk, sugar, or honey. It’s similar to a fresh-faced 21-year-old going to the bar and ordering…
It’s nearing midday, though it’s hard to tell. Any time you look up through the trees to the gray skies above, you’re greeted with a face full of the fine mist that’s been falling all morning. You’re telling time not through the sun or your half-dead phone with no signal but with the rumble of…
It’s 1973. You’re on a red-eye flight to Boston from LA, and the flight’s been delayed for half an hour. Something on the tarmac. Something with an engine check. You try to rest your eyes, but the in-cabin lighting stays on until liftoff. The buzz of the lights tickles your ears, the backs of your…
When I started Tea Reads back in January, the first thing I struck from my vocabulary was the word “review”. I had no interest in placing books on a numerical scale or following standard book review formats. To describe my thoughts on the books we read each month, I settled on the word “reflection”. It…
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