Using the Unlikely to Sell Coffee
By Lisa Marie Chirico I need you to turn back the clock a little, to the pre-Internet age. Back to a time when you could not show your love and appreciation for a company (or their products) by liking them on Facebook, following them on Twitter, or getting their app on your smartphone. Instead, the [...]

Coffee Is My Little Sanity Break
By Lisa Marie Chirico I’ll begin this article by stating that all writers must give credit where credit is due. Therefore, I am giving a shout out to the woman (let’s call her Marge) I walked by in a parking lot the other day. As Marge got into her car with her cup of coffee, [...]

Jane’s New Dress
There have always been two favorite premium brands of coffee around here: cuppa jane and Blue Jazz Java.  Both are wonderful and have their own following.  Recently we decided to merge the two, keeping my smiling face as the force behind the website but housing all the coffee in Blue Jazz packaging.  So, all my [...]

Campfire Coffee
We’ve got our fire pit working hard making s’mores and keeping the bugs away– but when I looked online for some inspiring ways to brew my coffee on the pit, I was pleased to find many variations on campfire coffee-making.  Here are some excerpts and links for you.  Are you a campfire coffee expert?  Please [...]

Hot or Iced?
Hooray! It is officially summer! I have made the jump to 100% iced coffee at this point- even brewing it the night before and chilling it for the morning.  How about you?  Sticking with your steaming hot mug in the morning- or are you like me and running to the fridge for your favorite blend? [...]

Household Uses for Coffee and Tea
Spring inspires us to jump into all kinds of activities. Sunshine gives us a renewed energy, turning tasks like cleaning and gardening into exciting “family activities”… this will be fun kids, just wait!  In addition to the sunshine fuel we have, we also find ourselves energized by novel new ways to tackle the tasks– like [...]

The Perfect Pair: Choosing Just the Right Coffee for Your Baking
Have you ever noticed that certain blends and origins of coffee just seem to beg for a baked good?  I don’t think that’s just me making another excuse to have dessert, although you don’t have to ask me twice.  There are definitely coffee pairings out there that hit that sweet spot of breakfast perfection.  I’m not just [...]

Coffee Cures
As you may remember, I’m a huge fan of the random Google search.  This week, since my house has become a germ circus, I tried “Coffee Cures”.  Lo and behold, I was pleased to find out that according to my search results, coffee cures nearly everything!  Lucky us! Just a quick run down the search results [...]

Never Enough Coffee
by Lisa Marie Chirico Time. Love. Coffee. Peace. No, those four words aren’t a haiku. Instead, they are all things I think almost everyone would agree that we can never have enough of in our lives. Due to the fact that I’m an avid coffee drinker, I personally believe that we can never have enough [...]

Love Letters
So today, just for fun, I searched for “coffee” on Twitter.  I guess I just wanted to see what people were saying about coffee today. What I found were love letters!  Notes of devotion!  Forget sending Valentines to your sweetheart, send one to your french press!  At all times of the day there is someone [...]