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Just Another Sunday in May

Truth Thursday

I just can’t bear to try to find another way to talk about Mother’s Day. It’s a non-holiday, one that I really dislike.  I am not interested in cards, in breakfast in bed (which no one in my family would think to do anyway) or even in a day at the spa on my own.

We have a kids baseball game and a field hockey game to attend. That’s good enough for me. I love attending my kids' events. I love being with my family, and relish the opportunities, especially now that I’m working full time. And when I need time and space away, I find it, and not on one particular Sunday a year.  

I don’t need my kids trying to find ways to show their love, when in fact, it wouldn’t really occur to them except in this manufactured way. I prefer to look at the bigger, long-term picture, and hope that our family life, for all its flaws, will sustain them into adulthood and they will be able to look back and say, you know, those parents of ours were ok.

Coffee Talk

Truth Thursday

Last week on National Public Radio, as is often the case, there was a week-long series on a very serious topic – coffee. 

Java.
Joe.
Mud.
Mocha.
Cuppa.
Brew.
Regular. 

Probing journalism on where it comes from, who drinks it, as well as songs, shows and other art created as a paean to the world’s favorite drink.

In honor of this retrospective, I will reveal my secret.  My family and friends who visit my house already know it, but I will announce it here for the world to discover. 

I don’t drink coffee. 

Never have, never will. Don’t like it. Don’t like the flavor, don’t like the temperature, don’t like the caffeine. I like the aroma, but that’s about it. Don’t like mocha in my desserts. Don’t like coffee ice cream (although Ben & Jerry’s is passable.) The only thing I drink at Starbucks or, preferably, local coffee shops like the great Mayorga in Maryland, is iced chai lattes. Thank goodness for non-coffee drinks, with which I can still behave like a grown-up and throw away $5 on a drink just for the heck of it.