Wondering Thoughts

Tea Jag

I'm on a tea jag, brewing loose leaf to be exact.  I still drink about the same amount of coffee and am still just as passionate about the bean as always, but I'm way into the smooth, relaxing aspect of a spot of tea.  Twinings is the best I've had so far.  My favorites are below:

Coffee Rules

I picked up Leonard Sweet's new book, The Gospel According to Starbucks:  Living with a Grande Vision, while at the bookstore yesterday.  It mixes together two things I love--Sweet's thought/action-provoking writing and Starbucks coffee. 

When I got home from the bookstore, I saw that the National Geographic Channel was showing "Coffee:  Beans to Buzz, a fascinating documentary that begins with the origins of coffee drinking and ends with current coffee trends like the free-trade and organic coffee movement.  If you are a coffee head like me, you've got to watch it to fully appreciate your next cup of joe.

A Vegetarian Adventure

A new adventure begins as Jinny and I go vegetarian with our diets for the next six months.  Before you write us off as going off the deep end, I want to share some of the reasons behind such a step.  I'll begin with the least significant today and add the other reasons on each day throughout the week:

Reason 1:  To increase blog readership each day(told you it would be insignificant)!  Yes, it is self-centered, but may be just the thing I need to be more deliberate about increasing my post frequency and expanding my blog audience (even beyond whoever it is in the Netherlands that checks in from time to time).  My goal is to post something each day about our new eating habits.  I hope to get interaction from those of you out there who are vegetarians as well as from carnivorous readers.

Tomorrow I'll give REASON #2 and then post about what led me to learn more about a vegetarian diet, as well as giving some definitions to some terms.