Lee: “Nov. 29.” Me: “Yeah?” Lee: “The last time you wrote a blog post.” Me: “2. That’s the number of stores Quills has opened since that date.” I’m sitting in the second of those two stores right now, a disarmingly beautiful space that is at once both cozy and comfortable. We opened this space on… [Read more…]
June 28, 2011
One coffee professional recently told me, with regard to building an espresso blend, “Espresso is so varied and personal.” I liked hearing that a lot. In a sense, it was comforting to me, since all of my espresso roasting and subsequent blending had been, for the most part, very much against The Rules. In the… [Read more…]
June 15, 2011
“With great power comes great responsibility.” Though it seems others before Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben employed this maxim, I do tend to think of its influence upon my thinking as being rooted in Spider-Man. These days, I certainly feel it; Peter Parker I am undoubtedly not, but greatly responsible? Absolutely. I’ve been blessed and tasked… [Read more…]
June 13, 2011
Since Mr. Darren Middlename Jennings not-so-subtly hinted that I need to blog more, I’m going ahead and writing. A while back, I wrote about how I was going to blog, every day, some little tidbit I’d learned about coffee that day. For a while, I kept that up on my tumblr site, but I’ve dropped… [Read more…]
January 18, 2012
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