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As spring arrives and the days grow longer and warmer, our garden, indistinguishable from the backyard lawn while covered with a blanket of snow, is starting to show itself again.  Early flowers are blooming, later flowering plants are pushing their green stems through the earth. It occurs to me that gardens rewrite what power looks like—steady, undeniable growth that takes root, spreads, grows sometimes invisibly but always undeniably. A garden persists, coexists, influences

Sunday morning paper brings another Wild Woman alert! A name we should recognize as easily as Steve Jobs’ or Mark Zuckerberg’s!  Meet Steve Shirley (because her business letters signed as “Stephanie” went unanswered). “Ridiculously ahead or her time,”(Sue Black NYTimes 8/24/25) she founded a tech company that provided the programming for the Concorde’s flight data recorder, software protocols that were adopted by NATO, and pioneered scheduling software for buses and trains. H

Josephine Baker once said about her partner Jo Bouillon, “He was my cream, and I was his coffee. And when you poured us together, it was something,” Offerring a simple yet powerful metaphor that captured the essence of their relationship. But it is another quote, from her brief speech at the March on Washington in 1963 that provides insight into the internal fire that fueled her courageous work for the French Resistance during World War II and her rise to prominence in the

Selma Miriam, founder of the iconic Bloodroot Vegetarian Restaurant & Bookstore , passed away on Feb. 6, 2025. She named the restaurant...

This wild woman is a champion athlete and an inspiration

The U.S. War Department considered coffee to be an essential element of the troops' diet--lifting morale, keeping them alert for night...

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...

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...

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. ~...

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...

We've all seen the silly wall plaques: "Drink coffee, do stuff," "Life begins with coffee," "Coffee: creative lighter fluid," "With...

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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...

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady, activist, writer. How might one encourage...

The Specialty Coffee Association: in their words: The Specialty Coffee Association is a nonprofit, membership-based organization that...

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...

So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune ~ Ruth Bader Ginsberg, United States Supreme...

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...