T Ching Contributing Writer
Regena Rafelson was born and raised in the Columbia River Gorge, where she still lives with her 90-year-old father, a whippet named Belle, and a black Manx named Patrick. Fifty pounds ago, Regena summited most of the Cascade volcanoes and was an avid backpacker, telemark skier, and mountain biker. Now, she is content to hike the Gorge – where all the trails go up – one slow step at a time.
Regena’s tea journey began almost fifteen years ago after a diagnosis of heart disease. She loves oolong and black tea. During the last several years of her career as a high school English teacher, she served whole-leaf tea in her literature classes every Tuesday. Still in contact with many of her former students, ALL remember Tea Tuesdays; few remember “The Crucible.” There is a lesson there.
Regena is honored to be a T Ching contributor.
Posts by Regena Rafelson
- Zest Tea Review (11/23/2021)
- Life With Father (10/21/2021)
- Tea Transition (7/15/2021)
- K-Cup Confession (5/17/2021)
- Little Hostess’ Tea Set (3/8/2021)
- Make Tea Not War (2/4/2021)
- Online Scrabble with Oolong (12/31/2020)
- Aesthete Tea (12/15/2020)
- Interview With Rajiv Lochan Regarding the Pandemic (12/1/2020)
- Happiness Month (10/12/2020)
- Ready-to-Drink Tea Poised to Surge (10/6/2020)
- Lovely Silent Tea (9/21/2020)
- Tea is a Complete Thought (9/3/2020)
- Comfort in Ritual – Part 2 (7/14/2020)
- Comfort in Ritual – Part 1 (7/13/2020)
- Social Distancing Hug in a Cup (6/3/2020)
- Taking Dad’s Teaginity (5/13/2020)
- Tea Poetry: Six in the Morning (3/6/2020)
- Tea Hoarder (1/23/2020)
- Tea on the High Seas (10/9/2019)
- “Real” Tea? (7/11/2019)
- Tea Grading System: What’s With the Alphabet Soup? (7/1/2019)
- Boba Secrets (6/13/2019)
- Hot Tea Causes Cancer: FAKE NEWS! (4/10/2019)
- Monkey Shines (3/11/2019)
- Good Grief! (1/29/2019)
- Georgia Tea Is Back! (10/1/2018)
- Calamity Is Running Out of Tea (9/20/2018)
- At What Age is it Safe to Give Your Child Tea? (9/12/2018)
- Tea Rainbow? (8/1/2018)
- Coexistence: Elephants, Tigers, and Tea (7/2/2018)
- The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party – Everything But Tea! (5/30/2018)
- Brewing Tea With Wild Water (4/24/2018)
- Pesticides in my brew? Ewwwww (4/2/2018)
- Disarm Them With Tea (3/1/2018)
- Tea Review: The Great Mississippi Tea Company Green Tea (9/5/2017)
- Aunt Tea’s Advice Column (12/13/2016)
- As Human as Possible: Part One (11/11/2015)
- Off the Grid (8/14/2015)
- Cold Brewed Tea is Splendid! (7/6/2015)
- Haiku for the Small Tea Grower (6/5/2015)
- Nepal earthquake: tea reaches out (5/14/2015)
- Flashback: alphabet of teas (4/3/2015)
- Organic High Mountain Oolong from Eco-Cha (3/23/2015)
- Teabags: the gateway brew (3/12/2015)
- Have tea stain . . . will travel. How to remove tea stains. (2/27/2015)
- Off the cuff (2/20/2015)
- Are you a PROBLEM tea drinker? (2/6/2015)
- Tea 101 (1/15/2015)
- Happy New Year! (1/1/2015)
- What IS NOT tea? (12/19/2014)
- Gifts for the tea-o-phile (12/15/2014)
- Family, friendship, feast (11/27/2014)
- Still crazy after all these years: tea misperceptions (11/14/2014)
- Back seven: not quite caught in the act (11/7/2014)
- Time for repose (10/20/2014)
- Tea across the time zones! (10/9/2014)
- Back Seven: the ten commandments of tea (9/19/2014)
- Steepist: Think inside the box (9/18/2014)
- Good Medicine: a tea lounge in Hood River! (8/26/2014)
- Where’s the tea? (8/11/2014)
- Life by the Cup (7/24/2014)
- Independence and tea (7/3/2014)
- Myths of childhood – and tea (6/12/2014)
- The World of Tea wins at World Tea Awards (6/2/2014)
- Chai wallah (5/16/2014)
- Aunt Tea’s advice column: macho, caffeine, and kids (5/9/2014)
- Bust a rhyme/win some tea! (4/21/2014)
- Whatcha gonna do with all that matcha? (4/15/2014)
- Jalam Teas: Zhang Lang (3/21/2014)
- Tea cannot (3/17/2014)
- Morning, Noon and Night (2/28/2014)
- Aunt Tea’s advice column (2/20/2014)
- Your favorite tea blog? (2/13/2014)
- Deep Blue Brew: Blue Chai (2/10/2014)
- Green Tea + C: help for the common cold! (2/6/2014)
- Tea market discovered on the moon! (1/24/2014)
- Tea is chill (1/17/2014)
- Sencha Naturals (1/10/2014)
- Happy holidays from T Ching! (12/25/2013)
- Hattialli Golden Lion (12/19/2013)
- Are you serious? (12/12/2013)
- Tea ceremonies in the western hemisphere (12/4/2013)
- The most beautiful cup of tea (11/28/2013)
- Eco-Cha: A tale of two teas (10/30/2013)
- Product review: GoMo detox tea (10/7/2013)
- Tangents, tea, and teens (9/25/2013)
- Six important truths about tea (8/19/2013)
- Greetings from the managing editor (7/22/2013)
- The New York Times does tea! (7/15/2013)
- All politics is local (5/23/2013)
- Teen tea club (3/12/2013)
- A tale of hoarding, procrastination, and MAGIC (1/7/2013)
- Tea Eggs – Worth a Reprise! (8/24/2012)
- It’s the little things, like porcelain dogs and a bit of tea (7/27/2012)
- Your cuppa more dear? (5/23/2012)
- Aunt Tea’s advice column (3/28/2012)
- West Coast Teapots 2012 (2/28/2012)
- Aunt Tea’s advice column (8/5/2009)
- Tea Eggs Are Delicious! (8/22/2008)
- white tea makes the top ten! (4/23/2008)