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Postings
- The Grass is Always Greener, Part I
- I think I died two Aprils ago
- Stress Level, Small Business Owner
- Cancer isn’t mine
- For the Love of Coffee
- Living my Dream as a Small Business Owner
- Born Again
- My hands hurt with anger
- Life’s too short; Thank you, cancer
- The Fear of Death
- It Takes A Village
- Hearing Lung Cancer
- Tears for Strangers
- Cancer Free
- Guest Post: Sorting Through Cancer Information – What Should You Believe?
- Benefits of Cancer: Lowering Inhibitions
- Ode to Motherhood
- Guest Post: A letter from my mom
- Wine, Coffee, and Listerine
- Hope: Scanning Fear and Cancer Treatment
- It’s not my fault but I feel guilty
- Three Miles to Chemotherapy
- What Causes Cancer? (I’m not professing to know)
- Disassociating Nausea, an Exercise in Chemotherapy
- What is chemotherapy like?
- Love and Beauty in the Peace Corps, Burkina Faso
- Good Cancer, Fragile Life
- Why did I get cancer?
- I am a Dreamer
- Dear Cancer, I Hate You
- Running Life, Cancer and Chemo
- Kancer Karma
- Chemotherapy Fatigue
- Cancer doesn’t happen to me
- On my third day of chemo my body said to me …
- Transitioning Lenses–Final Moments until Chemotherapy
- Facing Chemotherapy
- Discovering Cancer
- The Plastic Salad–Reducing Packaging Insanity
- Go Box and Laura Weiss–Sustainability in the Food Industry
- Environmental & Other Considerations of Telecommuting
- Hardware Reduction vs Planned Obsolescence
- Parental Instinct vs Consumerism: Balancing Baby Stuff
- Save Money by Saving the Environment
- Killing Paper with the Digital Age–Pomp, Circumstance, and Something Else
- Sustainable Coffee, So Many Options but One
- Redistributing Public Transportation and the Fallacy of the Free Market
- Compost’s Call to All Engineers
- Black Friday, and Every Other Day of the Year
- Stop Using Ziploc bags and Start Exploring the Alternatives
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Tag Archives: coffee
For the Love of Coffee
I’ve put everything I have into this business. Financially, I put nearly everything in, but I’m referring to my actual self. When people visit Bay Coffee they are essentially experiencing a piece of me. I’ve put all I have to … Continue reading
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Tagged business owner, cafe, career, coffee, professional, small business owner
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Living my Dream as a Small Business Owner
I never knew how much work owning a café entailed until I owned a café. I had never managed people and inventory, the two components of the business that continue to be the most difficult. I had worked in food … Continue reading
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Tagged cafe, career, coffee, espresso, small business, small business owner
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Wine, Coffee, and Listerine
Red WineThe evening is still early and I have nothing to do, nowhere to go, and no thoughts. Dinner has digested perfectly and the cool northern California air touches my neck and arms ever so slightly. Open on the table … Continue reading
Sustainable Coffee, So Many Options but One
There are various aspects of sustainability pertaining to coffee and coffee production, including farming techniques, fair wages, distribution and transportation, and among others, brewing. I would like to focus on this last piece because it is the most visible to … Continue reading
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Tagged choice, coffee, consumption, power of the consumer, sustainability, waste
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