At last month’s Rainforest Alliance gala reception I spoke briefly with Rainforest President Tensie Whelan for a few articles for … More
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The Aliveness of a Fleeting Century
I grew up in New Hampshire, and about the age (3rd grade) that I realized what New Hampshire was, and … More
It’s Onward O’Clock Right Here
I’ve been speaking Spanish for 10 years. The last time I took an academic class was 2006. I’ve been speaking … More
Madame Geisha
Coffee can seem pretty straightforward as we sip it from our mugs; it’s a hot beverage that tastes good and … More
Coffee in Hand
I traveled to Chennai in south India a few years ago, and I was not prepared for the fact that … More
Costa Rican Coffee: Spirit of a Nation
Costa Rican coffee doesn’t yield the volume of beans for export that other Latin American countries have to offer, but … More
Updates from Coffeepeople
What started as an unconventional horizontal anthropological investigation into the lives of coffee producers from Nicaragua to Colombia has accidentally … More
Nomad Notes: Offerings
Part 3 of 3 in a series less about coffee and more about travel, culture, and living abroad. In order … More
Nomad Notes: The Spanish Rules
Part 2 of 3 in a series less about coffee and more about travel, culture, and living abroad. In “Pen … More
Nomad Notes: Pen on Page
Part 1 of 3 in a series less about coffee and more about travel, culture, and living abroad. Written Monday, … More
The Coming Back
Interviews are snapshots that freeze things as they are in a moment, and words on the page are stagnant; their … More
The Book: “When Coffee Speaks: Stories from and of Latin American Coffeepeople”
ORDER THE BOOK HERE Back cover reads: Whatever your sentiments towards or knowledge of coffee, the stories coffee has to … More
Coffee Year in Review
It’s coming up on a year since I left to begin this odyssey. On August 28, 2012, I departed Newark … More
Another Kind of Organic
30 some years ago the UDSA standardized the definition of organic for the purpose of regulating the production and sale … More
The Story behind the Stories
The following is my story, as per early December 2012. (And I didn’t even have to translate it!) I’m sitting … More
When Coffee Speaks 