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“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…
Read MorePosted by Regena Rafelson | May 23, 2013 | Community, Health & Well-Being |
“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…
Read MorePosted by Regena Rafelson | Mar 12, 2013 | Community, Tea In Literature |
“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…
Read MorePosted by Regena Rafelson | Jan 7, 2013 | Product Reviews |
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…
Read MorePosted by Regena Rafelson | Aug 24, 2012 | Cooking With Tea |
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…
Read MorePosted by Regena Rafelson | Jul 27, 2012 | Community, Op-Ed |
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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