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Wild Women Coffee Conversations
Welcome to the Wild Women Coffee Conversations Blog:
Musings about coffee, travels in the coffee belt, and women who drink coffee and inspire us.
Enjoy this collection of occasional essays that always circle back to coffee.
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Feb 4, 20232 min read
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Sep 270 min read
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BLOODROOT
Selma Miriam, founder of the iconic Bloodroot Vegetarian Restaurant & Bookstore , passed away on Feb. 6, 2025. She named the restaurant...
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Mar 251 min read
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She spins! She wins!
This wild woman is a champion athlete and an inspiration
Wild Women Coffee (Cyd)
Jun 23, 20242 min read
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While coffee was rationed at home, Maggie Higgins was winning a Pulitzer
The U.S. War Department considered coffee to be an essential element of the troops' diet--lifting morale, keeping them alert for night...
Wild Women
Nov 3, 20231 min read
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Lucy's Sanka is not DeBest DeCaf
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can...
Wild Women
Sep 8, 20232 min read
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Smelling Salts? or Salt in your Coffee?
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your...
Wild Women Coffee (Cyd)
May 22, 20232 min read
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She is the Keeper of a Nation's Treasures
There is a hunger in this digital age to hear authors together, to participate in programs, to just be in a place, a community space. ~...
Wild Women Coffee (Cyd)
May 1, 20231 min read
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Queen Clarinet and Chicory
I started playing clarinet in the fifth grade. It wasn’t like a dream, I was really trying to get out of a history test! We had a pop...
Wild Women Coffee (Cyd)
Nov 20, 20222 min read
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Drink Coffee, Live Longer!
We've all seen the silly wall plaques: "Drink coffee, do stuff," "Life begins with coffee," "Coffee: creative lighter fluid," "With...
Wild Women Coffee (Cyd)
Nov 14, 20221 min read
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The WWC BeanLetter
This post has links to the WWC Beanletter--a coffee newsletter.
Wild Women
Jan 29, 20221 min read
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Most decorated American track & field athlete EVER!
Wait, who is Carl Lewis? He's the amazing athlete whose medal record was broken at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by Allyson Felix! She has...
Wild Women
Aug 9, 20211 min read
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Progressive Eleanor
I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady, activist, writer. How might one encourage...
Wild Women
Nov 25, 20201 min read
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Surfing the Web and Drinking Coffee--www Highlights...
The Specialty Coffee Association: in their words: The Specialty Coffee Association is a nonprofit, membership-based organization that...
Wild Women
Nov 22, 20201 min read
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BJK, A Wild Woman Winner!
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball. ~ Billie Jean King. One of the greatest...
Wild Women
Nov 22, 20201 min read
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The Notorious RBG (1933-2020)
So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune ~ Ruth Bader Ginsberg, United States Supreme...
Wild Women
Nov 20, 20201 min read
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Pandemic Coffee
The doors are closed on our favorite coffee shops and roasteries so when better than now to experiment with raw coffee and high heat at...
Wild Women Coffee (Cyd)
Apr 29, 20202 min read
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Jan 19, 20200 min read
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So you thought you knew...
...where coffee came from. Juan Valdez told us Colombia, and sure, most of us have had coffee from other parts of Latin America, BUT...
Wild Women Coffee (Jozzi)
Feb 26, 20181 min read
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Why Sleep Now?
Sleepeducation.org (brought to us by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine—who knew?) tells us that caffeine is a “moderately effective...
Wild Women Coffee (Cyd)
Nov 14, 20171 min read
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