This morning, a friend introduced me to a comic site I hadn’t yet come across. I instantly fell in love with it. She thought of me because of the comic, “The Great Coffee Spill”, which of course, I adore. Please check out Grant Snider’s Incidental Comics for other wonderful concepts. Writers will especially enjoy the site – watch for Performance Enhancing Drugs for Writers, The Elephants of Typography, The Nature of Ambition, Story Structures,...
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Coffee, as with wine, scotch and many other fine things has given rise to a great deal of lore intended to fuel the creation of connoisseurs.  For many, it is not enough to simply enjoy the simple pleasure of a hot cup of coffee, but one must consider, analyze, and most importantly, expound upon the relative virtues and deficiencies of every minute quality of the drink’s creation.  No detail of the life of the...
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They say that some things simply can’t be translated. The subtle nuances of a language cannot be learned by text alone –oh no- they must be stumbled over in real, embarrassing life. I learned this in Greece, while chasing a dream of the perfect cup of coffee. It was a difficult time. I don’t know how I made it through, to be quite honest. I began with Greek coffee, and quickly dismissed it as...
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