If you're looking for gifts for the tea lovers in your life, here are a few that I recommend. These support small businesses, people w...

  During the pandemic, daily walks have been a means for me to find sanity, comfort and even joy. Sometimes all three in a day, sometimes ju...

  Today, the latest season of The Crown was released (Netflix). To celebrate, I made homemade crumpets. They're not difficult, basically...

  My copy of the tea set used by Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, commissioned to raise funds for the suffrage movement.  More info This month in th...

How do you spell it?  Tea Cozy (common in the US) or Tea Cosy (common in the UK).  I appreciate both styles.  :-)  Anyway you spell it, t...

The Portland Tea Festival is launching an online Tea School !  The classes are really awesome and really affordable! I hope you'll ...

Tea and books help sustain me in these unprecedented times.  (OK, Star Trek too.)  I buy my teas from small specialty shops, and they ...

Woman plucking tea in Darjeeling Thank you AM f or snapping this photo! A workmate pointed out that I used the word heaven...

I have been studying Chanoyu , commonly referred to in English as the Japanese Tea Ceremony, for 7.5 years as of this writing. While my ...

Me, in a fabulous chair at Lovejoy's in Portland Thank you @ mitranite for the photo! Portland has a new tea room, and I think (hope...

Hello and happy Spring!  I'm going to be writing a series on the "Japanese Tea Ceremony" experience, known as Chanoyu or Ch...

As you have likely heard , poet Mary Oliver recently died. I love her poetry, how it imbues the natural world with everyday magic, and ...

It's been open for awhile now, but I have not written about the re-envisioned afternoon tea at the Heathman Hotel in Portland, OR. Ch...

out my window brown leaves, I long for fresh plum blossoms #teahaiku Tea notes: Drinking Hanayaka Koshun, a Japanese green wit...

Today I am drinking a beautiful Dong Ding tea made by Mrs. Su. You can see her making tea at 7:00 in this wonderful short documentary...

Photo by Marjorie Yap, of Issoan Tea School This photo captures the peacefulness of our recent tea gathering at the Portland Japanese...

Bowl-style Brewing Join my colleague and me for this free tasting/class at the NW Tea Fest! A few upcoming events in the Pacifi...

The highly anticipated Year 2 for Tea Fest PDX was a success! The organizing team worked hard to bring not only the best from last year,...