Taking Tea with Catherine

 Tomorrow is the 16th anniversary of my first post on this blog.  I still consider this a living site, and hope to update here regularly aga...

Thought I'd share a few images from my recent trip to California, in no particular order. For as long as I can remember I'd had...

I made it to California at last!  Honestly, I never thought it was going to happen.  It's not like I didn't want to see the Wes...

Not every day is a bad day, but we must carve out better ones for ourselves from time to time. Sometimes we find the ideal far away from ho...

When, after years of school and paid internships I was working my first proper full-time job, I found myself in a somewhat comfortable si...

Warning: rant ahead I have Instagram, and quite a few other social networking/media accounts, and spend more time looking through these...

Just in time for May, it's time to talk about something near and dear to my heart, in which love I am certainly not alone: flowers!  An...

If you love to read, and love physical books, you know the feeling of walking into a great bookshop.  It's home, it's a treat, i...

I don't think I've ever been identified as a cinephile.  Sure, if I like a film I will talk about it, and possibly analyze it, but ...

I must have expressed on this blog, at least once, my disdain for Times Square.  I didn't mind it so much when I was younger, but it...

As y'all now by now, my sister Bonnie lives in Texas.  Surprisingly (to me, anyway) there are many, many coffee destinations, which als...

When I envision an ideal living situation, it's usually in a cute cottage surrounded by a manageable garden and some wildflower...

I'm still amazed at how I can squeeze new tea experiences out of every visit to San Antonio.  It's not a Tea Destination, at least ...