All politics is local
“Won’t you please come in?” The woman was impossibly frail, but refused a helping hand from her kneeling position in a bed of spent narcissus. “If I start taking a hand, I won’t be able to get up by myself…
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Author: Regena Rafelson
Teen tea club
“Rafe, we want to start a tea club. Will you be our advisor?” I was staring at one pink scuff slipper and one turquoise scuff slipper jammed onto impossibly huge feet. The speaker’s hair looked just like he had put his…
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A tale of hoarding, procrastination, and MAGIC
On August 1 of 2012, I received a package from Magic Tea. It contained 10 whole-leaf tea samples, 20 grams each and each packaged in a silver stay-fresh envelope. Beautiful and cute. Looking at these perfectly wrapped little…
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Tea Eggs – Worth a Reprise!
Back in 2008, I wrote a post about tea eggs. Upon re-reading it, I came to two conclusions: first, I do believe one could eat and live forever, given a variety of tea, chocolate, and cheese, and two, over the last four years, I have perfected the recipe…
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It’s the little things, like porcelain dogs and a bit of tea
My mother-in-law, Marjorie Blumenfeld, was a woman of exquisite taste. Beautiful clothing and hats, the freshest foods in Manhattan, and an exquisitely decorated apartment at 110 Riverside Drive…
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