Scooping coffee beans into a JavaPresse coffee grinder, which is open, the crank on the table next to the mason jar lid, a mug in the background.

Coffee Snobbery, a weekend coffee odyssey.

Coffee. Coffee. Blog post. Coffee. Tea drinkers, go here. This post isn’t about the history or origins of coffee, but

Green beans, soybeans and radishes in last years garden

Money

So since tax day is almost here, MaryKate and I were talking about money. Besides more expensive food, you end

One of the raised garden beds made with cement blocks

WW: Gardening due to Food Allergies – Planning your Garden & Starting Seedlings

Okay, I’ve been telling MaryKate that I was going to do this post for a Whatever Wednesday since we bought

WW: Making Your Own Lifeboat

This started out to be a different post. Denise and I had gone to a public lecture at one of

WW: Living with Food Allergies – Making Unexpected and/or Unwanted Lifestyle Changes

So, food allergies can change your life plan a bit. When I (Denise) was young, my witnessing and participation in

WW: PSA — What's your anaphylaxsis plan?

I know, you’re thinking that maybe a pre-holiday post should be cheerful or full of cookies or booze or something,

WW Guest Post: Ann Winslow, Chef, on food allergies

Note from Mary Kate: Ann is a good friend of mine from college (during which, no, no one including me

WW: Living with Food Allergies — Trust and "The Man."

Full disclosure: Denise and I both work for government. So, yes, sometimes, we’re “the man.” And, yes, we understand the