April 22, 1970 marked the first Earth Day Observance. The idea was spawned out of tragedy, marking the beginning of the environmental movement. Just a year later, I joined several hundred students who walked to school on Earth Day, thus saving the county at least a thousand [...]

I recently had the honor and privilege of attending, by invitation from Mr. Rajiv Lochan of Lochan and Doke Teas, the wedding of his daughter Neha “Dolly” Lochan and her betrothed, Vikash Shah, in Siliguri, India. This was a first for me on two levels - the first time in India and the first time [...]

I’ve just returned from the 2007 World Tea Expo held in Atlanta, Georgia. There, I was exhibiting my custom lighting, especially for tea rooms and tea businesses, as well as introducing a line of tea-themed note cards.
Spending many hours in a large room together with hundreds of other vendors, we were all competing for the [...]

On June 16, 2007, The 5th International Appreciation of Aged Puerh Masterpieces event kicked off in Pasadena, California (1st in the USA). It was held at the Pacific Asia Museum’s Qing-dynasty style courtyard on a beautiful and sunny Southern Californian day. This event was sponsored by Wu Shing Publishing Co., the publisher of The Art [...]

James Norwood Pratt, one of the world's best known authorities on tea and tea lore and a regular contributor to T Ching, has joined forces with The Santa Fe Opera in staging a Festival of Tea this summer in Santa Fe. “This will be the biggest tea party America has seen since the unfortunate incident [...]