Category: Tea Musings
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Tea at the Temple Gates
On the odd occasion, I leave the house to hunt for tea. It’s a rare occurrence—much like a hermitic groundhog hailing the arrival of spring—but it’s been known to happen. Sometimes that urge falls upon me at night, on a Friday. And on one such night in the spring of 2018, I found myself at…
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“Glass” Half Full
I’ve been studying the Bible a lot, lately. Wait! Don’t turn away. I swear this isn’t proselytizing, and—yes—this still deals with tea. Plus a whole lot more. It may be a tad unwieldy to navigate this, here, narrative. But we’ll make it together. Okay? Okay. Moving on . . .
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Tea Musings about 2018
2018 was a weird year. Yeah, I know I’ve said that about prior years, but I really mean it this time. At present, it’s midnight on New Year’s Eve, a “chill-hop” station is on repeat-play, and I’m waiting for this 2013 Myanmar shou cha to kick in.
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A Spring Cleaning of Summer Stories in the Fall
At the time of this writing, it’s been over a month since my last article . . . missive . . . er . . . whatever. Also, at the time of this writing, it’s Thanksgiving day. Due to a bout of illness that decided to show up the day before, I’m holed up in…
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The Tea Vlogger in “American Vandal”
On September 20th of this year, I received an intriguing text from a fellow tea-brother: I’d never heard American Vandal, nor was I aware that it had two seasons. My Netflix-fu was neophyte status at best. If it didn’t have the word “Marvel” in front of it, or could be easily searched in the anime…
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The Real Tea
In the late-aughts (meaning: 2000-2009), my tea journey paralleled another hobby. YouTube. Since I worked the graveyard shift for most of the first decade of this century, I devoured a lot of content on that once-brand new streaming site. Even up to the present, this quiet addiction still percolates. Sometimes, it even cross-pollinates with my…
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Tangents at World Tea Expo 2018
This year, I went to World Tea Expo in Las Vegas with a mission. To hustle.
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You Say You Don’t “Do” Tea Blends, Huh?
“I don’t really do tea blends.” It’s a phrase that I never thought I’d find myself uttering, but one day—a couple of years ago—I did just that. A blending outfit wondered if I would be willing to cover some of their wares, and I politely turned up my nose in e-mail form. As far as…
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Reading Tea Blogs as History
As of this year, I’ll have written about tea on the Internet—in some capacity or another—for eleven years. It boggles my mind that I’ve been at it for this long. A part of me even wonders why I still do it. Honestly, not much has come of it. The blog itself really hasn’t changed much.…
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The Travails of Moving Tea
I think we can all agree on one thing: moving is a pain in the arse. Moving when you’re a tea drinker? Even more so. But I think I stumbled across the perfect way to do it this time.