Category: Coffee Muses from Texas

“Enjoy some history about Mail Pouch Barns: “Mail Pouch Tobacco” means bright yellow letters on a barn whose red planks have weathered to dark brown against an Appalachian hillside. In the 1870’s the Bloch Brothers, whose name appears on the sign’s masthead, had a small side business rolling stogies in Wheeling. At some point, they began bagging flavored stogie wrapper

I took this shot last year in early spring. Early spring here is generally no later than mid-March. As we are only about 40 miles from the coast, spring tends to bring quite a few foggy mornings. I generally like this type of spring morning, particularly when I can sit and enjoy the muffled sounds through the fog. Today, we

Quotes of the Day – The Quotations Page: “We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.” – Frank Tibolt I guess this could explain the problem I have had with both blogging and journaling, I always wait for the inspiration. If there is one thing I’ve learned

A Lonely Warning On Debt: “‘The question I ask is, what sacrifice are we making? Anyone in the know who is watching us has to wonder about our character, our intellectual honesty, our concern about our national security, our nation’s competitiveness in the global marketplace now and in the future, and, last but not least, our don’t-give-a-darn attitude about the

I was sitting at the kitchen table this morning with the doors and windows open enjoying our unseasonably cool morning, answering email and reading the daily news and views (as in blogs), when my youngest daughter wandered in and wanted to know why the AC wasn’t on. Now folks, the outside temperature at the time was just hitting 72 (I

The Carpetbagger Report “The Washington Post ran an interesting chart this week that every Democrat should memorize. It shows your annual savings under the latest Republican tax cut. Here are the figures: $10,000-$20,000: $2$20,000-$30,000: $9$30,000-$40,000: $16$40,000-$50,000: $46$50,000-$75,000: $100$75,000-$100,000: $403$100,000-$200,000: $1,388$200,000-$500,000: $4,499$500,000-$1 million: $5,562More than $1 million: $41,977″ Ok, I am trying not to go off into the political blog side

Chron.com | These ‘rural’ legends amount to a whole herd of cows: “These ‘rural’ legends amount to a whole herd of cows” Sometimes you really have to take your hat of to a real storyteller…check out the latest from one of my favorite authors. My family has been reading Mr. Hales newspaper columns since the 1950’s and he continues to

I was going through some old files today, cleaning out the clutter that accumulates when you aren’t being particularly observant, and I came across a bunch of slides I printed from a Tom Peters presentation. The one that spoke to me immediately was a quote Tom had attributed to Isabel Allende. “You are the storyteller of your own life, and