"Women are Angels And when someone breaks our wings.... We simply continue to fly......... on a broomstick.. . We are flexible like that ..."
I found this on another site. Punctuation is messed up and I don't know where it came from. But I think it's clever. Now I'm going to dust off my broomstick and put away those broken wings. :)
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. - William Styron
Do you have any tricks to help you get started each day or are you one of those really motivated, self disciplined types that don't need any tricks?
Not me. Getting started is my biggest battle.
The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself. - Wes Craven
When did you last scare yourself? When were you last really scared by something and what was it?
Fictional monsters like zombies, werewolves, vampires and such are not nearly as scary as real things like mortgages, collection calls, being unemployed, law suits, health problems, danger to children and other family. Real things are far scarier because there is less we can do about them and they are real, part of our reality. It is so much easier to read about fictional monsters and just close the book, finish watching the video, at the end. They all go away but for the memory. They go back to being unreal.
Think of the scariest thing you have faced and write about the feelings but change it around to one of the unreal monsters. Put all the fear, the real fear, into an unreal monster. See how real you can make it feel.
If you ask yourself why you actually like coffee do you have a reason? Sometimes I think it isn't the coffee that I really like so much as the social side of coffee drinking and coffee making. Starting with the beans and how you grind them, then to the type of coffee maker or the process you use to make coffee and then ending with the classic: cream, milk, sugar, sweetener...? Even the way you serve the coffee, do you prefer a mug or do you use something fancier like a teacup?
Where do you drink your coffee? Typically, I drink my coffee alone in a crowd of people who don't know me. I like it that way. Sometimes I make coffee at home when I work in front of the computer. I also feel alone and yet in a crowd of people there too. Coffee is a part of going out. How many times are you out somewhere and end up going out for a coffee? You could just come home and make it yourself. But, there is something kind of special about being out for coffee. Something kind of grown up, cosmopolitan, elegant and sophisticated about sitting with a coffee in a cafe or even over lunch.
I have a small collection of coffee makers. The process of making coffee is as interesting and sometimes elegant too. My favourite is the Bodum French Press, for practical reasons. With the press I don't need coffee filters, just the beans themselves, to make a cup of coffee. I can take the press with me and make coffee any where that I can boil water. It is very handy when I go babysitting for the weekend at my sister's house. My French Press pot is a bit small though. Fine for a regular sized mug. But, when I'm at home working on the computer I like a big, deep mug of coffee. A mug so huge as to appear bottomless, as close to it as any mug could ever be. So, for making coffee at those times, I use a portable cone filter which I hold over the mug, pouring the boiling water over the beans. I doubt this makes full use of the beans. They have less brewing time. So it seems a bit of a shame to make coffee this way. But, it does work.
I have an old percolator (Corning) which I picked up at the thrift store. It must have been used very seldom as it looks pristine. I have only used it a few times in th years I have had the pot. It is fun to hear the coffee brew in the percolator. You get more coffee smell this way too I have noticed. My other pot is a cone filter too but it comes with it's own pot, lid and scoop. The pot itself is glass but the rest of it is all my favourite shade of red. A Melitta pot which I bought when I was 16 and had my first apartment, living away from my family.
Flickr: Coffee Maker Museum
Flickr: The Coffee Machine Collector
Ning: The Vintage Coffee Maker
Jitterbuzz: Coffee Paraphernalia
A to Z Coffee Makers -- Reviews.
Coffee Sage -- Blog about coffee, beans and news.
Transcend Coffee -- Committed to fresh roasted beans.
Jim Seven -- James Hoffman's coffee blog.
Brewed Coffee -- For caffeine addicts only.
Royal Coffee Maker -- When you want something really deluxe!
“Some will see this as the apocalypse while others see this as natural evolution.” - Joe Laszlo
If all civilization ended, all of our man-made creations were to crumble and finally the planet itself explodes into just rock and gas floating around in space...
Would you feel better if the world/ the planet itself came to an end due to natural causes versus something we did to blow ourselves up? Would it seem just that much better if it were nature's fault? If we (though we would all be gone) were not entirely to blame?