You’ve all experienced it - you are at dinner with friends and one of them raves about a new gadget she has just purchased, one you have never heard of.  Then, over the subsequent days, that gadget seems to pop up around every corner.
When I fell down the tea hole several years ago, I immediately [...]

If you find yourself lagging and dragging right now – start sipping and start breathing; pour a cup of tea and then do some deep inhalations and exhalations.
Change is all around us.  Change comes from within us.  Change is us.
For most of us, the weather is changing during these winter months – and this does [...]

When my mom came to visit over the holidays and try out a place to live in Austin, I lent her my coffeemaker to keep in her apartment.  Needless to say, it really only gets used when she visits, so it was an easy thing to do.  However, what we didn’t think about was that [...]

The health benefits of tea, particularly herbal tea, are widely known and tea has been used throughout history to ease ailments.   Recently, I discovered that herbal mint iced tea has mental and physical health benefits for our furry friends of the feline persuasion.  I found this out completely by chance through a sequence of unfortunate [...]

My first job, after college, was teaching English in Tokyo, Japan.  That year, I had several “first-time” experiences: first time living alone, first time having a full-time job, first time living in a foreign country, and first time drinking first flush Darjeeling tea.
My first month, I met a new friend at a nice hotel tea [...]

When you curl up with a hot cup of tea (especially on a cold winter day), you’re probably focused on the warmth of the cup and beverage, the taste and smell of your chosen blend, and the boost your immune system receives.  The environmental impact of your cuppa may be far down on the list [...]

For well over year now, a small, but important, transformation has been in the works.  Starbucks - reliable coffee beacon to some, small business-squashing villain to others - has decided to upgrade their Tazo dustbags to loose-leaf tea sachets (and potentially even to bonafide loose-leaf tea itself).  It’s one small step for tea, but one [...]

Inspired by The New York Times best-selling book, Three Cups of Tea, Tea Party Angels is an innovative concept that turns a girl’s tea party into a fundraiser for girls’ education around the world.  Imagine thousands of young girls hosting tea parties across the country and asking their friends to bring a small donation - [...]

If you own a tea cafe or drink a lot of tea lattes and don’t want to invest in a decent (read: expensive) espresso machine, affordable options for heating and frothing your milk and chai lattes are, unfortunately, quite limited.  While I can’t speak to the adequacy and efficacy of the Froth au Lait Professional [...]

2010 will likely be an interesting year.  We seem on the verge of so many changes socially, politically, economically, and environmentally.  Will the recession of the last couple years result in a REAL change in the mentality of the U.S. consumer?  Will the economy recover quickly or will retailers continue to suffer?  Will the explosion [...]