Con­tin­u­ing to fol­low my tales of my addic­tion to caf­feine, and my search for more palat­able, inex­pen­sive, and less sug­ary dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tems, I finally come to the point. I’m try­ing to acquire the taste for cof­fee right now.

I’ve always glam­or­ized cof­fee drink­ing in my mind. Older, wiser peo­ple I wanted to be like when I […]

One of my favorite kids’ shows is ending.

Grant says the fund­ing crunch is par­tially to blame, but the deci­sion to end Read­ing Rain­bow can also be traced to a shift in the phi­los­o­phy of edu­ca­tional tele­vi­sion pro­gram­ming. The change started with the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion under the Bush admin­is­tra­tion, he explains, […]

When I went off to col­lege, most of my friends thought drink­ing cof­fee was super cool.  That wouldn’t have both­ered me, but some­one actu­ally tried to pres­sure me with the sen­tence, “Every­one drinks cof­fee!”  Peer pres­sure is a major turn-off for me, for some rea­son.  Plus, it tastes dis­gust­ing, so I passed. 

Caf­feine is my friend. I truly feel a bit of eupho­ria in addi­tion to the burst of energy. My thoughts line up so much more clearly and I stay on focus and moti­vated when I’ve had a Coke or two first thing in the morn­ing. I always work out on days I’ve had a little […]

Both of my kids are offi­cially school aged now!  I don’t know how that hap­pened, but here it is, fall again.  The sum­mer is over, and sud­denly I find myself with a bunch of free time.  Right now I’m adjust­ing by keep­ing myself super busy and not allow­ing myself much time to stop and think.

The […]

Yeah, I know, this is a month late to say any­thing about Harry Pot­ter and the Half Blood Prince, but I just saw it last night. I really expected the nor­mal dis­ap­point­ment at see­ing a well writ­ten book trans­lated to film. As usual, I was care­ful not to read too much ahead of time, so […]