The following three weekends in the greater Seattle area hold opportunities to experience the whimsy of Alice in Wonderland-themed theater in a park setting. Read my article on Examiner.com for details about Theater Simple‘s “WONDERLAND: Alice Adventures”. The image above is related only thematically to the upcoming theatrical performances in parks. It is a still [...]
Getting to hear Mike Tyson say that “Earl Grey sucks” is just one of many reasons that you should watch this. Possibly Related Posts: Reading “A Tea Reader” Alice in the park Infusions: an exhibit of teaware by local Pacific Northwest artists Soothing and Breathing Happy Lewis Carroll’s Birthday!
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) – writer, mathematician, photographer, Anglican deacon, and perpetrator of glorious logic-puzzles and nonsense – was born on this day in 1832. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the best known of his works, and a book no doubt responsible for fostering a great many fixations on tea, was first published in 1865. [...]
Surrounded by all of the current hype touting green tea as the cure-all tonic for just about every ailment – physical or spiritual – it’s a little difficult to imagine a very different perspective, in a very different era, where green tea could be distrusted and even thought to cause harm to tea drinkers. Sheridan [...]
In addition to my writing here, I am also a contributing writer for The Taste of English Tea Blog, which is connected to the English Tea Store. This has led me to pursue avenues of tea and tea research of a more English flavor. One recent example was that I started finding out more about [...]
Brought to my attention by Tonnvane, a sometime contributor to GongfuGirl, a charming little temporary event-space called a Pop-up Tea Shop appeared at 47 Lamb’s Conduit Street in London yesterday. Sadly, the entire lifecycle of this “business” was to conclude at the end of the day today as it was part of a rather clever [...]
This being the time of year when everyone starts getting all stressed out and panicky about buying stuff for other people, I thought it would be a good time to offer you three hopefully useful recommendations for the tea lovers on your lists. Or, even better, you can talk other people into buying these things [...]
