I blog frequently, and of course, also review teas on RateTea, because I love to write, but there are sometimes downsides to my high level of enthusiasm for writing about tea.One thing that I’ve noticed about blogging and reviewing teas online is that,…
I want people to read the pieces I publish online; the more readers I reach, the better. My message reaches a broader audience, and in the long-run, I even earn more money as I gain visibility for RateTea indirectly. So why do I not want people to cl…
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Tagged ethics, mindfulness, sustainability, tea blogs, tea websites
Tagged ethics, mindfulness, sustainability, tea blogs, tea websites
This post is inspired by a recent post on the English Tea Store’s blog, written by William I. Lengeman III of Tea Guy speaks, titled How Tea Became Hip. I originally posted a rather detailed comment on that post, but I decided that the material in the…
This post is about drinking tea that falls quite far outside my normal comfort zone, both in terms of the choice of tea itself, and the way it was prepared.Pictured here is a pitcher of iced tea that some of my friends brewed up:This is Harris Tea’s de…
I recently read a post on SororiTea Sisters, a review of Assam Mothola White (White Assam) from Grey’s Teas. This post shared a commercial description of this tea, from the seller, which claims that “No other white teas are known to be produced in A…
I’ve been uninspired to write lately, which is why my posts have slowed down a bit, but today I read a Google+ post by Nicole of Tea For Me Please that got me thinking and inspired me to write this post. So first, thanks Nicole!Nicole commented about …
I just discovered an interesting discussion thread on Steepster, How do you stop the compulsion to buy buy BUY more tea?!, through a post on the Life in Teacup Blog how to deal with obsessive tea shopping… . This got me thinking about addictions in …
This top 5 post highlights the most frequent mistakes I make when brewing tea.Brewing tea that’s not great quality – I know this isn’t really a “brewing” problem, but when I ask the question: “Why didn’t this cup of tea turn out well?” the answer is of…
A while back, I shared a post how into tea are you? in which I talk about my limits of being interested, not only in tea, but in anything. I draw an analogy to dance, particularly, swing dancing (lindy hop, charleston, and the like), which I’d like to…
Mindfulness is one topic that I like to write about, and one that comes up frequently in the context of tea culture. Wikipedia has good, separate pages on mindfulness in Buddhism and mindfulness in modern psychology; the two concepts are not identical…
