Many of us love to start our day with tea. Just tea! The variety of choices here is as wide as the world of tea! Many people like to start their day with a green or an oolong tea, but there are others of us who prefer to hit the morning hours with a nice [...]

You don’t have to look very hard to discover that there is a lot wrong with the world today and that there are a lot of things we could worry about. On the top of the worry hit list; our health and all that impacts it in a negative way.
Here is a little tongue-in-cheek article [...]

As now and ever shall be, the tea plant is a miracle of vegetation. Of its eighty-some sisters in the Camellia family, it is the only one containing caffeine. And of the sixty-some natural sources of caffeine, tea is the only plant in which this alkaloid is combined with other components so that [...]

Here’s yet another confirmation regarding the health benefits of drinking tea from Dr. Ruxton, a British researcher and diet specialist.
“The clearest consistent evidence points to an association between tea consumption, in excess of three cups per day, and a reduced risk of myocardial infarction or a heart attack.”
Dr. Ruxton found that drinking up to [...]

Summertime! From fireworks to barbecue to hanging out at the municipal swimming pool, it is time to be outdoors! Watermelon and strawberries and popsicles. We throng to the beach, the lake, the fountain, and the swimming hole - wearing fewer clothes than any other time of year, baring skin that has not seen sunshine for [...]

I am writing this post as a rally cry to all tea lovers out there who care about our future generations. We have to do more to educate the masses about the pleasures and health enhancing properties of tea. We can no longer sit idly by while the children of this country increasingly become victims [...]

I have discovered a rather curious situation. It seems that many people think that drinking tea in the summer time, when it’s hot, is unreasonable. Now perhaps you’re shaking your head in agreement . . . but I find that very confusing.
It all started when Sandy and I were invited for dinner at [...]

The brilliance and duration of Chinese civilization are simply unparalleled in human history. Most people know only about China’s printing, porcelain, and gunpowder; we forget that China was between four and seventeen centuries in advance of the rest of the world in inventions ranging from iron and steel making to pumps, mills of [...]

No need to allow the high price of fuel to keep you from having a wonderful and restful holiday! Just follow the simple steps given below and you can have a stellar vacation without driving even 25 miles! It’s simple and inexpensive. Remember this rule: lots of tea + little to no technology = vacation [...]

Imagine you and me, a cup of tea
I think about it day and night, it’s only right
To think about the tea you love, steeped just right
So happy together.
If I should call you up, or send along
A message to meet for a cup, a nice oolong
Or perhaps you’d prefer Lapsang Souchong
So happy together.
I can’t see me [...]