2015: Digital Coffee Summer

The sun is out and the summer is sweaty; it’s the season of cold brew and there’s lots that has … More

Another Year Later

At the end of October 2013 I self published 400 copies of “When Coffee Speaks: Stories from and of Latin … More

This internet thing is cool, but there is something about ink on paper that—for me at least—will never go out … More

Yesterday I checked a big ticket item off my “being a freelancer in 2014” to do list: I got Obamacare. … More

Part 3 of 3 in a series less about coffee and more about travel, culture, and living abroad. In order … More

I spend a lot of time trying to unearth adequate translations for Spanish coffee words. Obviously I am by no … More

If your coffee comes with a tag of organic or fair trade or single origin, do you believe it? If … More

Coffee cherries being loaded from the receiver into the beneficio truck. Costa Rica and Nicaragua: two countries with histories and … More

I’ve been having a lot of Reading Rainbow moments lately; there’s lots going on in Latin America and in coffee, … More

Trampa– (n. f.) trap, snare. Hacer trampas. To cheat. Farmers can’t cheat. If stuff doesn’t grow, stuff doesn’t grow. At … More

Humanity of Commodity: Working Project Rationale Everything has a story. No one of us, no moment of anyone’s life, fits … More