OFFICE TEA (DRINKING TEA AT COCA-COLA)
Fun times speaking at our Global Tea Conference in Istanbul, Turkey In my conceptually free-wheeling hay days at art school I would be...
DRINKING TEA
My Grandmother would tell me stories about my life as a toddler living in Taiwan. In her proto-typical Asian matriarchal way she reserved...
UNIVERSITEA
Half "you're welcome", half "I'm sorry". But what better way to start a grossly overdue post with a terrible pun. Regardless of which...
SAKURAI JAPANESE TEA EXPERIENCE
"A place where tradition and innovation meets, where discovery crosses paths with chance encounters" The Japanese often take provincial...
不說再見
It’s been a week since I’ve returned from Taiwan and I’ve been mulling over how to write this post. After all, how do you succinctly...
ON MAKING
One of the things that I was most excited for prior to coming to Taiwan was the cut throat, “not good enough”, monk-type, slightly...
BECOMING A FULL-FLEDGE MIYAZAKI CHARACTER
Cue music. There is a scene in Howl’s Moving Castle where Sophie steps out from a portal into a landscape of never ending flowers and...
GETTING DRUNK ON VACATION DAYS
**I want to start by saying that I am no expert in tea, nor am I at all a credible source of tea shop reviews. As stated earlier, I’m...
TRAINING IN THE MOUNTAINS
It is just leaves and water, but tea makes sense of all facets of my life. Thank you for coming here and reading this far. I will be...