Good evening! It’s 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 31, 2025. It’s clear and cold, it’s New Year’s Eve, and it’s coffee time. We often think of fashion as purely aesthetic, but history tells us it can be a powerful psychological tool. The Mode à la victime (“Victim’s Fashion”) and the iconic red ribbon didn’t appear…
Coffee Time Blog 13: The Vacuum of 1971 – Desegregation in Columbus, Georgia Good morning! It’s 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 21, 2025. It’s sunny and cool outside, and it’s coffee time.—– I recently encountered a thought-provoking Facebook post about the racial landscape of sociology. It highlighted how personal social and cultural environments can limit…
Good morning! It’s 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 27, 2025. It’s clear and cold, it’s Thanksgiving 2025, and it’s coffee time.—– It’s Thanksgiving, and I hope you are all having a great one. Some of you get along with your families; some of you don’t. Some of you will nap in somebody else’s chair this…
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on Monday, November 10, 2025. It’s wet and cool outside, and it’s coffee time.—– Howdy y’all. This past weekend, I went shopping at Home Depot, intending just to pick up some containers I’d bought online for storage. Surprisingly, they had the same heavy-duty small containers as the discount stores, for…
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 30th, 2025. It’s wet and slightly warm outside and it’s coffee time. ————————————– It seems I’ve been quite nostalgic lately. This morning around 6:30 AM, when I was walking Sascha on her short trip for a pee, I noticed a school bus picking up children in my…
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 28th, 2025. It’s windy and rainy outside and it’s coffee time. I may have touched on this before, but still…let the indefinite pronouns begin! I can’t recall which HBO special it was from, but two things comedian George Carlin said have stuck with me from his stand-up…
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on Monday, October 20th, 2025, and it’s coffee time. I have a saying I came up with: “To all things, there is a rhythm.” When I think of rhythm, I go all the way back to primitive man – the sound of drums, the sound of patterns. In my personal…
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on October 19th, 2025 It’s a beautiful Sunday morning here in coastal Virginia, and this is a special edition of Coffee Time! Sundays are my “reset” day, and that’s what this is all about. Normally, I wouldn’t do anything on Sundays (well, I have to do things, of course), but…
Good morning! It’s 7:00 AM on a wonderfully brisk Saturday, October 18th, 2025. Let’s grab some coffee. Growing up in the ’60s and ’70s, when I think about phobias that aren’t my own, my mind often goes to Lucy van Pelt from Peanuts. In several shows and in the comic strip, she’d set up a…
Good morning! It’s 7:00 a.m. on October 17th, 2025, and the Autumn sun is rising once again. It’s a bit chilly, and my dog is giving me that “I don’t know if I want to pee in the cold” look. But I digress (several times throughout this post LOL)! Anyway, on to the mayo! Mayonnaise,…