Combining tradition and science to create natural and effective remedies.
What feels like eons ago (Thanks for that, 2020), I decided to try a new strategy for dealing with work. It had been suggested by a couple of my Twitter mutuals, including some of the ones who share my issues with chronic pain. The suggestion was that I should try Continue Reading →
Content Warning: Depression, Suicide, Self-Harm, PTSD I’ve learned a lot of things during this hiatus. Among others, it has finally locked down for me the fact that I probably do deal with depression. It just doesn’t present in the same way for me that it has for many of my Continue Reading →
For a variety of reasons, some attached to the pandemic, some to my own chronic illnesses, we are going to need to shut down for a bit. This will not be a permanent thing, though I cannot tell you exactly how long it will last. Current plan is for two Continue Reading →
This chai started with a blogger. I was asked if we would be willing to donate a few teas for testing, and in return we would be highlighted on the blog for a month. Once Mister Tea and I had decided we wanted to do the thing, I, of course, Continue Reading →
For weeks I’ve been inundated with emails from companies we work with on a variety of levels, from the people we get herbs from, the people we get pens from, some of the places we acquire tea, banks, insurance companies, payment processing… …all trying to reassure. In some cases I Continue Reading →
Back in May Mister Tea and I realized we hadn’t yet made an Earl Grey Chai. This seemed odd, given his love of Earl Grey and my love of chai. Things got even stranger after I dug through the tea journals and the tea ideas files that hadn’t yet been Continue Reading →
I get tea ideas from a long list of places. One of the more common ones is people talking about food on Twitter. I’ll see a description and the flavour combination (or the bits of it that could be applied to tea) spark the thought of “I bet this would Continue Reading →
Twitter has been a fairly neat place for me, overall. Discovering the chronic illness community there was wonderful, stumbling into a corner of science twitter was glorious, book twitter is another happy place, pen and ink twitter tempts me sorely, crafting twitter keeps me engaged, and D&D twitter was the Continue Reading →
**EDIT 11/12/19** Catastrophe averted. And we are ever so grateful. If you follow us on Twitter, you may already have seen that Mister Tea and I are currently attempting to avert a catastrophe. I’ve read a couple of articles and Twitter threads in recent months about how being poor has Continue Reading →